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TO: Mayor and Aldermen DATE: February 14, 1980

FROM: W.S. Wingrove,

Fire Chief.

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RE: PORT COQUITLAM FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORT - January 1980

Alarms ringing
Bush fire

_Cars Damages $500

Chimney

Furnace

Gargabe containers

Gas spill

House fire Damages $15,000
Natural gas in apartment

1 Refrigerator leaking gas

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Apartment fire Damages $19,500

B.C. Hydro iine

Clothes dryer

Oxygen tank leaking

Box car of shakes in C.P.R. Yard Damages undetermined

Inhalator calls
Patients transported
Firemen attended
Man hours

Firemen off sick - Total 35 days
Volunteers paged 3 times

Total damages - £35,006

$19,500 to an apertment caused by a cigaretice in a bed. $15,000 damage to a
home caused when owner placed ashes in a box and left it in the middle of the
front room. No one was home for about 4 hours, and on returning the house was
full of smoke and the carpet was burning. $500 damage to a car caused when
owner was trying to start car with jump cables, welder's torch ignited box car.

48 Inhalators, 27 home emergencies consisting of heart attacks, strokes, child
in convulsions, asthmatic attack, Falis causing injuries and a car battery
exploded putting acid on owners face and eyes. Attended 7 recreation accidents,
8 motor vehicle accidents, 4 patients with injuries caused from fights, trans-
ported a man to hospital from an aceident when his motorcycle hit a tree and
wert into bush in the fog, (the accident was undetected for several hours) and
one industrial accident.

Summary for 1980 and same period in 1979
1980 1979
Fires and related incidents 20 damages $35,000 21 damages $48,900
Inhalator calls 48 58
Patients transported 41 4§

W.S. Wingrove,
Fire Chief.
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