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Government decision to transfer the fire-fighting organizations from the control of local authorities, and to re-group and reinforce them under the general control of the Ministry of Home Security, thus establishing a national fire-fighting service, has been generally welcomed. The debates in the House of Commons indicate that the Reorganization of the Fire Services Act gives expression to a principle which is regarded as essential by all who have had first-hand experience of heavy air raids and which has already found firm advocacy in various reports and inquiries, from the PEP Broadsheet “London under Bombing” to the recent fourteenth report of the Select Committee on National Expenditure.
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Organization of Civil Defence. Nature 147, 721–723 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147721a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147721a0