What is civil-defense-service

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What is civil defense service?
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• The Civil Defence Service was a civilian
  volunteer organisation established in Great
  Britain by the Home Office in 1935. In 1941,
  during World War II, the use of Civil Defence
  replaced the pre-existing Air Raid
  Precautions (ARP). The Civil Defense Service
  included the pre-existing ARP as well as wardens,
  firemen (initially the Auxiliary Fire
  Service (AFS) and latterly the National Fire
  Service (NFS)), fire watchers, rescue, first aid
  post, stretcher party and industry. Over 1.9
  million people served within the CD and nearly
  2,400 lost their lives to enemy action

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AIMS

• To save life.
• To minimize damage to property, and
• To maintain continuity of production.

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Organisation

• The organisation of civil defence was the
  responsibility of the local authority. Volunteers
  were ascribed to different units depending on
  experience or training. Each local civil defence
  service was divided into several sections.
• Wardens were responsible for local reconnaissance
  and reporting, and leadership, organisation,
  guidance and control of the general public.
  Wardens would also advise survivors of the
  locations of rest and food centres, and other
  welfare facilities.

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• Rescue Parties were required to assess and then
  access bombed out buildings and retrieve injured
  or dead people. In addition they would turn off
  gas, electricity and water supplies, and repair
  or pull down unsteady buildings.
• Medical services included first aid parties who
  provided on the spot medical assistance. More
  serious injuries were passed to first aid posts
  by stretcher parties and to local hospitals by
  ambulance personnel. If required, bodies could be
  removed to emergency mortuaries.

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• Gas Decontamination Teams were kitted out with
  gas-tight and waterproof protective clothing and
  were to deal with any gas attacks. They were
  trained to decontaminate buildings, roads, rail
  and other material that had been contaminated by
  liquid or jelly gases.
• Report and Control dealt with the stream of
  information that would be generated during an
  attack. A local headquarters would have
  an ARP controller that would direct rescue, first
  aid and decontamination teams to the scenes of
  reported bombing. If local services were deemed
  insufficient to deal with the incident then the
  controller could request assistance from
  surrounding boroughs.

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• Fire Guards (initially called the Fire Watchers
  Order in September 1940, then the Fire Watcher
  Service in January 1941 and then reformed as the
  Fire Guard in August 1941) were responsible for a
  designated area/building and required to monitor
  the fall of incendiary bombs and pass on news of
  any fires that had broken out to the NFS. They
  could deal with an individual magnesium
  electron incendiary bomb by dousing them in
  buckets of sand, water or by smothering.
• Welfare would support the injured and people
  bombed out of their homes. This would involve
  finding suitable accommodation, issuing new
  documentation (ration books, identity cards) and
  money to buy food.

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• Messengers would convey information from the site
  of bombing incidents back to the ARP
  headquarters. Many messengers were teenagers
  equipped with nothing more than a bicycle.
• The Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) aided in ARP
  and observer duties as well as running and
  operating the mobile canteens and rest centres.
• The organisation and task evolved through the
  conflict.

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