Gad QuneGuntiOn OF THE GY OF PORT COQUTiAG C ¢ U i

AUG 2 6 1974

FIRE DEPARTMENT — JULY 1974

CAR FIRE : 1
~ORNAMENTAL TREE UNDER

EAVES OF HOUSE

OUTBUILDING 5

INDUSTRIAL BURNING ILLEGALLY
- GRASS OR BUSH FIRES

T.V. SMOKING

COMMERCIAL BUILDING

(ELECTRICAL)

ELECTRICAL BOX SHORTING

HOUSE FIRE

HYDRO WIRES SHORTED

DAMAGES - $52,000.00

TNHALATOR CALLS 44
PATIENTS TRANSPORTED . 36

FIREMEN ATTENDED 286
MAN HOURS 337

VOLUNTEERS REMUNERATION $565.00
VOLUNTEERS CALLED 8 TIMES
NO FIREMEN OFF SICK

Approximately $35,000 damage to homes when fire started in the basem2nt

fumpus room area. Possible cause from a lighted cigarette in a chesterfield

or a waste paper container. Approximately $17,000 damage to home caused when
three young children aged 8, 6 and 5 started a fire on the front porch.
Undetermined damages to outbuildings and the car. One outbuilding fire caused
when gasoline ignited while a man was filling a lawn mower. Commercial building
fire was to a refrigeration unit. A call causing considerable concern came in
as the mill on the PoCo Trail was on fire. Port Coquitlam having only one mill
we assumed it was the Pitt Timber, but after another radio call we found a smail
building off Harbour Street with a sign on it reading "Royal City Mill".

29 home emergencies consisting of strokes, heart attacks,

-asthmatic attacks, falls causing injuries, boy scalded, boy with dislocated
shoulder and a man fell from a tree. 3 people found passed out on sidewalks in

44 Inhalator calls.

Industrial accident was a man hit on the head.and he

different incidents.
Attended 5 motor vehicle

sustained a large cut over the eye and was unconscious.
accidents. and 3 overdoses.

See attached sheet for inspections.

seat

W.S. Wingrove
Fire Chief.

WSW/dv

ce: L. Pollock
R. Freeman