Sunday, August 22, 2010

13 Aug - Fire Extinguisher Training

Friday the 13th. If you were ever going to give the women and staff at the Embassy and Navy compounds fire extinguisher training, Friday the 13th would be the perfect day wouldn't it. What on earth could possibly go wrong...... Luckily for us nothing did. Scott and Dean rounded up some out-of-date extinguishers, got everyone together and after a quick brief about what to do it was game on.

Leading from the front was our Australian Ambassador Susan Cox. No fire is safe now.

Nic made sure that any little incidents that may result from Jaxon's adventurous mind are quickly dealt with. Not that we've had any such incidents yet touch wood, wait don't touch wood it might burn, touch dirt or something else that won't ignite.

While we were doing the training up at the Embassy Compound the power went out and the stand-by generator kicked in. No big deal we thought; power outages are a common thing here. It was only as we drove back down the hill that we found the reason why.


A tree was down and there were sparks and flames jumping in every direction. Lucky we had just all done our fire fighting training.



And wouldn't you know it, when Scott and Dean got back to work the Maritime Wing guys were doing fire fighting exercises as well. Must have been the day for it. And no, we don't know what the two little kiddy pools are for either.




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