Parachute Flares

Immensely powerful for their size. 

Training last night was to demonstrate and then fire parailluminates (flares) safely. Gloves, safety goggles and ready for action. Oh... we told Portland Ops Room before we did!

In the days of budget cuts it was a case of using up the flares before they went out of date and have to be decommisioned. A total of seven 999 calls were made into the Ops Room. The callers were thanked for calling to report the flares and an explanation given.