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THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM C 0 Uj \ C

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| | JUN 11 1979
Mayor and Aldermen DATE: June 7, 1979

W.S. Wingrove,
Fire Chief.

RE: PORT COQUITLAM FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORT — May 1979

Alarms ringing
Hydro Pole on fire and wires down

Car ,

Industrial Damages undetermined
Hot water tank

Chimney

Oil heater

House Damage $3,000
Bush fire

Paper box

Garbage container

Lumber

Gasoline spill

School No Damage

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Inhalator calls

Patients transported

Firemen attended

Man hours

Firemen off sick - total 16 days
Volunteers paged 4 times

Total damages ~ $3,000

$3,000 damage to home caused when lighted material was put into an open
garbage container in the kitchen cupboards. The three industrial fires:
flat car of lumber at the C.P.R., Hydro pole and wires caused by an
accident and the Huntington Rubber building. Fire at the school was
caused by four people, who the R.C.M.P. causght, playing a game with
wooden matches. Still having false alarms at the schools and garbage
and paper box fires. ,

38 Inhalator calls, 28 home emergencies consisting of domestic fights,
heart attacks, seizures, asthmatic attack, fall causing injuries and
three dead on arrival. Attended 3 sport accidents, 3 motor vehicle
accidents, 1 fight in a beer parlour parking lot, 2 elderly people
found beside the street and one overdose,

Summary for 1979 and same period in 1978
. 1979 1978
Fires and related incidents 140 damages $64,200 116 damages $241,600

Inhalator calls 263 245
Patients transported 210 180

W.S. Wingrove,
‘ Fire Chief.

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