THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM

May 10th, 1973

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May 1 4 1973

Fire Department “enthly Revort for April, 1973

16 grass or stump fires
4% houge fires
1 car fire
1 construction bullding
2 ofl furnaces
43 inhalators
“67 total calis
33 patients tranaported

Siren sounded 4 times

265 firemen attended

296 man hours

3375 volunteers remuneration

36,4CO.CO damages

2 firemen off sick for 11 days . ;

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Damages of 36,400:~ approximately $5,000 damages to a home, posaible cause was a
lighted cigarette in a clothes hamper. The owners were in the process of moving
in when the fire broke out. $1,200 damage to a car caused from an electric short,
$200 damage to a home when children playing with matches lighted an ornamental
tree on fire which in turn ignited the house. No damage resulted from a nunber of
small fires ignited by vandals in a house under construction. ‘

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we had a fire in a construction shack on Mary Hill, possibly started by children.
Two flooded oi2 burners with no damage resulting. 16 grass or stump fires in which
most were started by persons unknown, we had a number of fires in stumps and bush

in the vicinity of the Poco Trail in the ecology area,

43 inhalator calls:~ 21 home emergencies consisting of heart attacks, strokes, bad
falls, bed cute, infected ear, punctured car drum, emphysema, epiliptic seizures
and asthma ettacks, Treated a man who collapsed in a cafe, a lady who fell at the
Rec centre, a lady who fell on the sidewalk, 2 school children who had accidents
at school, a hockey player with injured shoulder, 8 motor vehicle accidents and

overdoses.

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Two industrial accidente:< a lady collapsed and was injured at Scott Poultry and
& young man who lost his arm in an accident at the C.P.R,

One of the firemen reported being off sick will be off for about 6 weeks with a
broken leg received in a nlotorcycle accident,

For inspections, see attached sheet,
WSW/esc

CoG. LD. Pollock
R.A. Freeman ~