Symp­toms of fire
Last week dur­ing ICT, we were treated to the usual round of lec­tures, done by instruc­tors in an army of the 21st cen­tury — pow­er­point slides, flash ani­ma­tions, the works. Lec­tures usu­ally pre­cede prac­ti­cal field train­ing, and despite our snig­ger­ing, they usu­ally help in our under­stand­ing of what we’re sup­posed to do in the field.

Except for our fire evac­u­a­tion drill. The first slide was of five points, and titled ‘the five symp­toms of fire’. My mates and I spent the next twenty min­utes gig­gling, and could only remem­ber three ‘symp­toms’: heat, bright light and smoke.

Symp­toms of fire’ became our catch­phrase for the week.

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