THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM

Feabsuary 6th, 1973

Fire Department Monthly Report for January, 1973

industrial fires
conmmerctal (cafe)

chimney

clothes dryer

hot water cank

flooded furnace

car fire

C.P.R. derailed butane tank ear
inhalator calls

total calls

persons transported
siren sounded 3 times
162 firemen attended
162 man hours

$140 remuneration
$10,300 damages

1 fireman absent

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Damages of $10,300 was to 1 industrial fire and one car fire. $10,000 damages waa
to a blasting machine at Esco Steel. This machine blasts off the rough edges to
castings and on the day of the fire a casting that was too hot was put in the mach~
ine igniting the rubber lining. $300.00 damage was done to a car when the wires
shorted. No damage to a cafe when the stove and chimney became overheated, also a
small fire in a garbage container. Motor in a clothes drver burnt out. Small fire
in a home when material stored too cloge to a hot water heater ignited from the
pilot light. We had a call to the C.P.R. to a derailed butane tank car. There were
no leaks but the car was too badly damaged to be moved any distene«, The butane was
transferred to another car, an operation that could have been quite dangerous had ic
mot been done by the experts’ that were called in. .

2 motor vehicle accidents, Treated an elderly man that was found

ering from exposure and a man with a badly cut car caused from a
Bki-doo accident. 16 hone emergencies consisting of heart attacks, convulsions, falls
causing injuries, diabetics and home accidents. Three people treated after béing in
fights and 4 overdoses. Treated and transported a man who lost his arm in an indust~

vial accident.

The siren was sounded three times, once for the fire at Esco and tha other two were
when we had two calls simultaneously.

For inspections see attached sheet,

W.S. Wingrove,
Fire Chief

WsW/ese
ec.c. L.D. Pollock

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