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: FIPE DEPARTMENT ~ JANUARY 1976 C 0 U \ C

DAMAGES $5,000 MAR 8 1976

HOUSE FIRES

CHIMNEY FIRES

MALFUNCTION OF FIRE ALARMS
CAR FIRES

HIGH TENSION WIRES ARCING
INDUS TRIAL

WASH DOWN OIL SPILL
NUISANCE CALLS

NO DAMAGE

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INHALATOR CALLS
PATIENTS TRANSPORTED

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FIREMEN ATTENDED
MAN HOURS

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VOLUNTEERS REMUNERATION $390.00
VOLUNTEERS PAGED 4 TIMES

FIREMEN OFF SICK 1 TOTAL 2 DAYS

All of the damages were to a home when a teenzge boy spread and lit gasoline in his.
home, The case is in the hands of the R.C.M.P. Other house fires resulted in no damage.
There were three cooking fires, a wall furnace, a chesterfield caused by smoking and a
smoking fireplace. Malfunction of fire alarms caused by power outages, 3 car fires,

two caused by blow-backs through carburetor and the third was faulty wiring. One
industrial was to a propane drying heater that was improperly governed,

31 inhalator calls. 21 home emergencies consisting of falls causing injuries, heart
attacks, kidney stone attack, child choking with nose bleed, gall bladder attack,
epileptic seizure, strokes and complications from child birth. Two industrial accidents,
one a crushed foot, the other a crushed hand. Attended 4 motor vehicle accidents, one
attempted suicide and overdose of alcohol. .

Summary to date and for same period in 1975.

1975
Fires and related incidents darages $5,000 13 damages $1,875
Inhalator calis . 40
Patients transported 28 34

See attached sheets for inspection and ambulance service.

W.S. Wingrove,
Fire Chief.

WSW/dv
c.c. L.D. Pollock
R.A. Freeman