Fire station open day

1st September 2001

St Ives
Cambridgeshire

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A personal view
by Philip Grosset

There was plenty to see at the St Ives Fire Station's annual open day. The town has quite a number of free attractions of this sort.

There were long queues at the squirter!

Free sweets for the children.

Left: this is what happens if you pour water on a chip pan fire.

Below: demonstrations of the different types of fire extinguishers. The public too could have a go with some of them.

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