Today (23rd July 2010) SLAF Fire fighters carried out a fire evacuation drill at the Sri Lanka Insurance building Vauxhall Street.

 This exercise was conducted to introduce the occupants of the building to the processes at hand in case of a fire and to familiarize the Fire fighters with the Insurance Corporation building whilst honing their skills.  
During the exercise personnel inside the building were evacuated using three processes according to the situation and also considering the height.

Fire vehicles aerial ladder platform and rope rescue systems were adopt to bring down the employees from the top floors whilst others on the lower floors jumped on to a platform known as a “jumping sheet”. The Fire fighters took only 30 minutes to terminate the fire and to evacuate the whole building.