METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF STOKE NEWINGTON

Duties of a Senior Fire Guard

A.Normal duties

(i) to be responsible to his head Fire Guard for the Fire Guard organisation of his area
(ii) to know all his Fire Guard Street Captains, and to hold weekly meetings with them
(iii) to be responsible for the compilation of all records, including a register of all Fire Guards in his area showing details of their training and any failures to maintain duty, and records of the equipment distributed on free loan or otherwise
(iv) to ensure that adequate equipment is available, and to receive receipts for equipment from his Fire Guard Street Captains
(v) to ensure that the whole of his area is covered by fire prevention arrangements by checking the arrangements made by his Fire Guard Street Captains
(vi) to arrange for the protection of unoccupied premises, churches, halls etc by Fire Guard parties, and to ensure that Parties are conversant with the means of access to such buildings and with the distribution of equipment in them.
(vii) in consultation with the Fire Guard Staff Officer and his Head Fire Guard, to arrange for the protection of isolated business premises by Fire Guard Parties.
(viii) to be conversant with the Fire Prevention arrangements at business premises in his area
(ix) to contact (if authorised by the appropriate authority) personnel on duty at business premises in his area and to report on these contacts to his Head Fire Guard
(x) to see that men (if any) directed by the local authority under the Compulsory Enrolment Order do duty in the Fire Guard Parties to which they have been directed
(xi) to consider reports on high fire risks received from his Fire Guard Street Captains and to refer them to his Head Fire Guard
(xii) to organise training in his area and to maintain a register showing the stage of training reached by each Fire Guard
(xiii) to ensure that Fire Guards are regularly rehearsed in their duties by the Street Fire Party Leaders under the supervision of the Fire Guard Street Captains
(xiv) to arrange the simple exercises of Street Fire Parties in his area
(xv) to nominate suitable persons to be appointed as Fire Guard Street Captains and Street Fire Party Leaders, as vacancies arise
(xvi) to decide with his Fire Guard Street Captains rallying points for reinforcement purposes
(xvii) during alerts to visit the teams on duty
(xviii) to arrange a rota of Fire Guard Street Captains to ensure a regular check on the maintenance of duty in his area
(xix) to maintain liaison with the Superintendent of any Fire Guard Depot deploying Fire Guards in his area
(xx) to visit and supervise teams deployed in his area from a Fire Guard Depot
(xxi) where a light trailer pump is allotted to a building in his area:
       (a) to call for volunteers to man it
       (b) to ensure that these attend for training and practice under the N.F.S.
       (c) to see that the Pump Party Leader maintains the equipment in an efficient condition.
 

B.Operational duty

(i) on an alert, to see any trailer pumps allotted to his area are duly manned
(ii) to visit attacked districts and encourage and direct the Street Fire Party Leaders and their Parties; and if necessary to take operational charge
(iii) in the event of a serious incident developing in the vicinity of a building to which a trailer pump is allocated, to determine, if the N.F.S. is not available, whether it should be moved to the site of that incident and if reinforcements are required
(iv) where necessary, to call upon the Superintendent of any Fire Guard Depot in his area for additional Fire Guards.

C.Duties after a raid

(i) to arrange for the immediate replacement of equipment reported by Street Captains as destroyed or damaged, e.g. water containers
(ii) to prepare a consolidated report on the raid in his area from the reports submitted by Street Captains and to submit it to the Head File Guard and to the Wardens' Post
(iii) to assist any Fire Guard casualties in making out claim forms for compensation.