THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM
| MEMORANDUM JUN 42 1978

TO: Mayor and Council | June 9th, 1978

FROM: W.S. Wingrove
Fire Chief

PORT COQUITLAM FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORT — May 1978

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Fire alarms ringing

Car fires $1,200
House fires $4,560
Garbage

Bush ;

Wash down after accident
School fire approx. $10,000
Industrial (Macro)

Industrial (Esco)

Chimey Fire

Pree eh Uo

Inhalator calls

Patients transported

Firemen attended

Man hours

Firemen off sick - total 14 days
Volunteers paged - 5 times

Total damages - $15,700

Approximately $10,000 damages to Hazel Trembath school. Cause still unknown,
electrical fixtures are being checked at the lab. $1,000 damages to a home when
sparks from burning in the fire place ignited the shake roof. $3,500 damages to

a home caused by a fire in a garbage container in the kitchen, possibly a

lighted cigarette. $700 damage to a car caused by electric ignition malfunc~
tioning igniting gasolene. $500 damage to a small car caused from electric wiring.

6 Fire alarms ringing in schools, 3 to same school which seems to have the
experts baffled. The alarm system checks out each time after a false alarm
but there seems no way of checking the automatic dialer. The other 3 alarms
set off by students and a waste paper basket on fire activating a heat riser.
Both industrial calls were false alarms. One a truck exhaust set off a smoke
detector and the other was a furnace smoking and blazing.

$1 Inhalator calls, 30 home emergencies consisting of breathing problems,heart
attacks, strokes, epileptic seizure, haemorrhaging due to illness, falls causing
injuries. Attended 4 playground accidents, 7 motor vehicle accidents, man hit
by a car, domestic quarrel, and a youngster fell from Shaughnessy underpass. 3
Industrial calls, man injured when a grinding broke, man treated at work for
possible bleeding ulcer and a lady having problems breathing from Scotts Poultry.
Attended to a man who had heen stabbed and one overdose.

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