; THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT “COQUITLAM
MEMO

TO: Mayor and Aldermen DATE:

W.S, Wingrove,
Fire Chief,

RE: PORT COQUITLAM FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORT ~ July 1980

4 Alarms ringing

2 Bush fires

2 Cars Damages $400

8 Garbage containers

2 Gas spills

2 House fires Damages $38,000 & $50,000
3 Hydro wires

4 Mischievous fires or calls

1 Wash down honey spill

49 Inhalator calls
41 Patients transported
273 Flremen attended
297 Man hours
3 Firemen off sick - total 32 days
Volunteers paged 2 times
Firemen off = Compensation 18 days

Total damages = $88,400

Iwo house fires $38,000 damage to a home caused from electrical short
in a battery charger. $50,000 damages to home caused when hot ashes
were put in a kitchen &arbage container. ‘Two car fires, $300 damage
caused from a lighted cigarette left in back seat. $100 to a car
caused by children stuffing paper into a no~draft vent and lite on
fire.

49 Inhalators, 30 hone emergencies consisting of heart attacks, strokes,
heat exhaustion and sun atroke, asthmatic attack, lady in convulsions,
fall causing injuries and some drinking problems, 3 industrial
aceddents, 2 sport incidents, 9 motor vehicle accidents, woman hit by
acar, boy fel] off the train bridge and 3 fighta,

Pour mischievous fires and calls, consisting of 5 chlorine spill in the
C.P.R. Yards from a lady, checked out and found hothing. Three fires
pouring gasolzne on the read and lighting te and throwing molotov
cocktails, one at a door of a achool,

Summary for 1980 and same period in 1979

1979 1980
Fires and related ineddenta 202 damagen $200,400 165 damages $690,088 *
Inkalator calls 359 344

Pationta transported 284 273

* This does not inelude Golf Club Fire
(inaurance $1,375,000)

W.S. Wingreve,
Fire Chief,

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