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to fight a fire on board ship).
Fire drills should be planned to enable regular practice in the various emergencies that may occur depending on the type of ship and the cargo.
The locations should be changed in successive drills to give practice in differing conditions and with different types of fire. Locations could include:
       holds, tanks and other spaces such as forepeak stores and paint lockers;
       engine or boiler rooms;
       accommodation spaces such as cabins and laundry rooms; and
       galleys.
Fire drills should be as realistic as circumstances permit. Search and rescue exercise should be undertaken in various parts of the ship. Where possible, local fire-fighting equipment, such as extinguishers, should be activated and the visibility of self-contained breathing apparatus masks should be reduced to imitate a smoke-filled atmosphere. Care should be taken with such drills to avoid trip and slip hazards.
The fixed water fire-fighting system should be used. Engine room crew should ensure that the fire pumps are operated and that full water pressure is on the fire mains. The emergency fire pump should also be used for fire drills.
A fire drill can be held as the first stage of an abandon ship drill.
Fire-fighting teams should assemble at their designated stations and be dispatched to the location of the supposed fire, carrying with them emergency equipment (for example, BA sets, radios, lamps and axes).
An adequate number of hoses to deal with the assumed fire should be deployed. At some stage during the drill, fire hoses should be tested under pressure.
The drill should extend, where practicable, to the testing and demonstration of the remote controls for ventilation fans, fuel pumps and fuel tank quick closing valves, the closing of openings and the appropriate isolation of electrical equipment.
Fixed fire extinguishing installations should be tested to the extent practicable.
At each drill, one extinguisher or more should be operated by a member of the fire-fighting team, a different member on each occasion. Different types of extinguishers available on board should be used on a rotational basis. The operation of extinguishers that cannot be charged on board should be explained. Extinguishers that are used during the drill must be recharged before being returned to their normal location.
Each member of the fire-fighting team should be trained in the use of breathing apparatus as part of the drill. The apparatus should be cleaned and checked to be in good order both before and after it is used. Cylinders of self-contained breathing apparatus should be recharged and seafarers should be trained in the use of the recharge system. Otherwise, sufficient spare cylinders should be carried for this purpose.
Fire appliances, fire and watertight doors,