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This black & white educational/training film is about the Navy's fire prevention and control measures. This is copyright 1942. Opening: A March of Time Special Production: Fire Prevention & Control (:09-:38). Aerial shot of a huge structure fire with a massive smoke plume. Numerous fireboats spray water on the flames from many, different directions. A burned out car. A fire rages at night. Daytime - a car pulls up, a man exits. A military officer waves fire flags from a bi-plane, it is a fire drill. Another officer presses the fire alarm button. A man gets a call and turns on his alarm. Men rush as if the drill was a real occurrence. Men jump onto firetrucks. Men run. A man picks up a fire extinguisher. A man puts on an asbestos fireproof suit (:39-2:47). Men have extinguishers and are at the ready. A fire and trash bill board. Names are placed on different parts of the board. Aerial diagram of air station building hangars. CO2 extinguishers are pointed out. Where extinguishers are located is pointed out. Fire alarm boxes. Fire hydrants. Oil pump shut off valve. A man opens a mobile fire extinguisher (2:48-5:01). Men get a firetruck ready. Hoses are put in the right place as are extinguishers. A motorcycle truck is prepared. Small portable fire bottles are put together and made available. They are placed no further than 50 feet from every plane. A man works on a small plane which has its own extinguisher. Men climb onto the plane. The plane has a tiny extinguisher along with a horn. Plane features are pointed out (5:02-7:14). The men look at the carburetor to make sure it's not leaking. Wing fabric is checked. How the automatic fire extinguisher works is shown. A fire extinguisher is used to show how it works. Fire prevention rules sign. No cigarettes allowed in the hangar. The cigarette is smashed on the ground. The plane is cleaned with kerosene. Oil and grease is cleaned. Oil drips. The ground is scrubbed (7:15-9:49). Rags thrown away. A sign reads: “No Smoking within 50 ft of planes or hangars.“ A man points for where a truck can go. An airplane is being refueled. The hose and nozzle are passed along. Men walk the air station. Fire bottles are replaced. A fire bucket filled with sand. A man checks the weight of a bottle on a scale. U.S. Navy written on the hangar. A man drops a lit cigarette. The cigarette rolls into the hangar as men stand outside. Smoke starts billowing from inside the hangar (9:50-12:32). Men start running in all directions to man their fire stations to combat the fire. Fire alarm button is pressed. Men jump onto fire truck. Extinguishers are grabbed. Mens how up with the extinguishers and start to put out the fire. A plane is pushed out of the hangar manually by the men to keep them safe. More planes are wheeled out as the fire burns. Men spray extinguishers under a plane in the hangar. Officers in charge state that the situation is under control. An officer writes down his remarks. A huge fire rages. Firemen deal with a fire. Water is sprayed on a fire. Nighttime buildings collapse during a fire. Fire and water (12:33-15:23). End credits (15:24-15:32). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
