They were taught how to handle a stirrup pump in case it was needed.

They have the opportunity to put out a pretend fire using a stirrup pump in a bucket of water.

I know it had the stirrup pump on it anyway.

Pressure was provided by a hand-worked stirrup pump on the tank.

A stirrup pump was also carried, together with a full range of other suitable tools and equipment.

It involved a bottle of Tango, a stirrup pump and effective lighting.

It was extinguished by local volunteers armed with stirrup pumps.

In the meantime, I've run out of makework and taught myself to work a stirrup pump.

Fire buckets and stirrup pumps stood on each landing.

We'll have to keep a stirrup pump close by.'

Surveying our soggy plots, we wonder whether they’re going to let us use stirrup pumps.

I called up fire-fighting information and got the whole manual with pictures, including instructions on the use of the stirrup pump.

Into the choir, where I had to learn the stirrup pump all over again, assigned rubber boots and a tin helmet.

After we had finished with the shelter we had a stirrup pump.

Fish was standing beside a stirrup pump.

Stirrup pumps were issued to put out fires and proved very useful for watering gardens during the summer.

He took one of the portable stirrup pumps from the entrance and walked towards the red glow of the old town.

If you siphon your bath water for the garden with a device similar to a stirrup pump costing about £20, then it is cost effective.

Everybody except Langby dived for shovels and stirrup pumps.

Equipment was rudimentary - stirrup pump and beaters.

A stirrup pump is a portable water pump used to extinguish or control small fires.

I looked around, alittle wildly, for the bucket and stirrup pump Langby must have dropped when he fell.

I use a Zefal plastic bicycle stirrup pump from Halfords, and have done so for about 10 years.

"That is your fault," he said, and before I could get to my stirrup pump and bucket, he tossed it in the front door.

So four of us took our stirrup pumps and torches and picked our way through what was a minefield.