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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => General Interest => Topic started by: dodger on May 12, 2005, 09:31:04 PM

Title: Proto BA Set
Post by: dodger on May 12, 2005, 09:31:04 PM

Can anyone remember or know the rhyme that was used when donning a Proto BA set
it began
While the dresser dresses you
pull out plug an mouthpiece do

i think it ended with

check your sight
your alright

Title: Re: Proto BA Set
Post by: Margaret Haywood on March 15, 2011, 01:11:58 PM

 From a copy of 1001 questions and we have since found it in ‘The Fireman’s Quiz’ by H.A Benwell M.C.
            On page 39 of the first book and page 29 of the other the poem reads :-

 

                                        While the dresser buckles you,

                                        Pull out plug and mouthpiece too,

                                        Main valve, lock it; take a reading,

                                        Nose clip; by pass; do your breathing,

                                        Nose clip tight, protect your sight –

                                        Get your light – you’re all right.

 
Hope it helps
Maggie

Title: Re: Proto BA Set
Post by: kurnal on March 15, 2011, 01:26:39 PM

Thanks Maggie. I have been looking for that for some time.

Title: Re: Proto BA Set
Post by: nearlythere on March 15, 2011, 05:22:23 PM

Where's the famous line "And when you run out just roll up your beard and stick it is your gub?"

Title: Re: Proto BA Set
Post by: afterburner on March 17, 2011, 03:13:42 PM

In the interests of practicality that line got deleted when firemen became firefighters.