y THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM C ¢ U NV C

MEMO DEC $0 1979

Mayor and Aldermen DATE: December 6, 1979

W.S. Wingrove,
Fire Chief.

PREP RPE WHE PW RENE aE

RE: PORT COQUITLAM FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORT - November, 1979

Hydro wires down & burning

Alarms ringing

Bush fires

Cars , Damage $800
Furnace

Garbage containers.

Gas spill

House fires Damage $20,200
Kitchen range

School fire Damage $700
Nuisance

Newspaper shack

Fireplace

Electrical short a
Apartment $7500
Rescue from jammed elevator

Inhalator calls

Patients transported

Firemen attended

Man hours

Firemen off sick - total 4 days
Fireman off on compensation 3 days

‘Volunteers paged 4 times

Total damages - $29,200

$15,000 damage to a duplex caused when newspapers carelessly stored fell
behind the natural gas hot water tank, igniting a large area in the basement
area. $2000 damage to a kitchen caused in a cooking accident (chinese wok)
$7,500 damage to an apartment suite caused by a lighted cigarette ina
chesterfield chair. $2000 damage to a home possibly caused when a metal
chimney from a wood burning heater overheated igniling insulation $1200 to

a kitchen caused by a fat fire. $700 damage to a school caused by children
playing with matches. $800 to a car cause unknown.

55 Inhalators, 31 home emergencies consisting of seizures, breathing problems,
strokes, heart attacks, asthmatic attack, hyperventalating, falls ard burns.

Attended 13 motor vehicle accidents, 4 sport accidents, 2 industrial accidents,
fall from a bicycle, overdose of alcohol and met the Via Train to transport a

sick lady to hospital.

Summary for 1979 and same pericd in 1978

1979 1978
Fires and related incidents : 300 damages $297,900 297 damages $277,125
Inhalator calls 517 534

Patients transported 407 405

WSW/ms W.S. Wingrove,
. Fire Chinf