Learning the Lessons of How to Stay Alive ; Herald Express Reporter Alex Ali Spent the Day with Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service at Its Breathing Apparatus Training Centre Outside Exeter to Experience First Hand the Reality of Fighting Fire.

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THE last time I put something on which would save my life was when I was standing on the edge of a frozen lake in the French Alps.

I was about to go ice diving under a two-foot crust of ice at Le Lac in Tignes in water which was freezing cold.

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Learning the Lessons of How to Stay Alive ; Herald Express Reporter Alex Ali Spent the Day with Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service at Its Breathing Apparatus Training Centre Outside Exeter to Experience First Hand the Reality of Fighting Fire.

Then a Frenchman had told me simply to put the regulator in my mouth and breathe.

This couldn't have been any different. I was going into a ship's contain...

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