Among the newly-scanned images on our database are these photos from 1931 of firefighting recruits learning to do rescue work. The location was a laneway behind the Central Fire Station on Adelaide Street West, just west of York Street. 1. A man jumps into a life-net, a device sometimes used when there was no other means of escape from a building. Globe and Mail Fonds 1266, Item 25858. 2. A team practices pulling a hose to the top of an aerial ladder. Fonds 1266, Item 25855. 3. Recruits use scaling ladders to access upper windows from the outside. Fonds 1266, Item 25856. 4. A fireman with a hose gains access to an upper-storey window via a scaling ladder. Fonds 1266, Item 25859. 5. Packing up the life net. Fonds 1266, Item 25854. Cropped versions of these images appeared as a collage on page 13 of the Globe newspaper on November 20, 1931. #TFDHistory #TorontoFire #FireHistory #TOHistory #TorontoArchives