Lac CukitGdtai sun OF THE CHIY OF PORT COQUITLAM C ¢ UJ AY C

Jaly 10th, 1972 JUL {7 1972

_Fire De: artment Monthly xerort for Jure, 1972

house fires

car fires

brush fires
outbuilding fire
miscellaneous fires
inhalator calls
patients transported

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siren sounded 2 times .
120 fireman attended
150 man hours :
$260 firemen's remuneration
$10,250 dameges
firemen absent - 4 days
firemen on compensation - 6 days

Damage in the amount of $7,500.CO to a home from a fire which started in the
basement when fumes from a leaking gasoline tin ignited from the rilot light
on a hot water tank. $1,900.00 damages to a hore when a fire started ina
chesterfield, possibly started from a lighted cigarette. $200.00 damages to
e csr from a fire which started from a back fire through the carburetor. No
damage resulted from a small fire in a barn. There were also two miscellan~
eous fires, one at a faper shed and the other et the railroad ties at the

C.P.R.

23 inhalator calls, one to a man who broke his leg water skiing; to a teen-
age cirl who fell and injured her knee; to a child who spilled creosote over
himself; a call to a lacrosse slayer with a dislocated shoulder at the Ree
Centre; to a boy hit in the face with a golf club; to a boy who fell from
his bicycle; to a man injured on a tug boat; a call to another industrial
accident where a man was pinned between two railway cars resulting in very
serious injuries to both legs ard an unidentified man was found under the
C.F.R. bridge with head injuries possibly caused from a fall.

Eleven cells to home emerrencies for heart attacks, erileptic seizures,
Giabetic attacks, asthmatic attacks anc a hyrer-ventilated patient. Two '
motor vehicle accidents and one overdcse.

This month two men were hired, one was Mr. R. Dunbar as Fire Frevention
Officer, he comes from the Vancouver Fire Derartment, and Mr. Schumacher
as a firefighter. .

Inspections: € buildings under the halle regulations, 24 chimneys, 2 of1 .
burners, 12 industrial buildings and 53 other other public buildings.

W.S. Wingrove

Fire Chief

WSW/ese

Cet. LD. Pollock
R. Freeman