RANNOCH SCHOOL
1 Pump Private.
Stations
? to 2002 Large Wooden garage to house appliance Photo
Firemasters
A teacher was in charge of the unit.
1973 Mr W.H.Jarvis (Master in Charge of the school Brigade)
Appliances
? PYJ206 Karrier Gamecock/Carmichael WrT
? ? Dodge G1313/Fulton and Wylie WrT
Brigades
? to 2002 Rannoch School Fire Brigade
Notes
Rannoch School brigade quickly in action at boathouse
Rannoch School, Perthshire, Fire Brigade was quickly on the scene when the school’s rowing club boathouse was involved in fire at 2030 one Sunday in February. Three hoses were delivering within 15 minutes of the outbreak, but the building and contents—provisionally valued at £16,000—were beyond saving.
The cause was thought to be illicit smoking by pupils, states Mr. W. H. Jarvis, master-in-charge of the school brigade, from whom this report has been received.
The fire was also attended by the Kinloch Rannoch volunteer unit of Perth and Kinross Fire Brigade and by the retained units at Pitlochry and Aberfeldy, some 25 miles away.
Mr. Jarvis says that the school brigade undergoes regular formal training, with much help and advice from the Perth and Kinross brigade. The two best cadet firemen each year attend an 18-hour course at Perth HQ, after which they hold the acting rank of Leading Fireman.
The brigade maintains two vehicles, two pumps, foam generating gear and portable extinguishers sited around the school. Recently the school’s thyristor alarm system won a prize in a competition organized by the Institute of Electrical Engineers for the best school project in the Tayside area.
In command of the brigade this year are Acting Leading Firemen Robert Gordon, from Blair Atholl, and Ian Galbraith, from Kenya.
(Fire, May 1973. Page 629.)
Due to financial problems and a falling roll the Board of Governors decided to close the school in 2002 and the machine was sold (as one of the school’s assets) to a caravan park.
The school was not allowed to attend any fires except grass ones as they were too young and not insured. The first attendance for the school is Kinloch Rannoch Volunteer un it, although I am led to believe that on occasion when the volunteers arrived at a chimney fire at the school, the school brigade was already there putting a jet into the air and trying to get it to fall back down the chimney to extinguish the fire. The school apparently only had the School Brigade for their Duke of Edinburgh’s award.
Tayside Fire Brigade used to send an officer up one Tuesday afternoon a month to train them (he would stay and do the Volunteer training that night) and the boys got training from a teacher every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon.
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