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THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM C 0 UJ C
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Mayor and Aldermen DATE: December 11, 1980 1S 999

MEMO

W.S. Wingrove,
Fire Chief.

RE: PORT COQUITLAM FIRE DEPARTMENT: REPORT ~ November 1980

8 Alarms ringing :

4 Cars Damages Nil

(2 Furnace

2 Garbage containers

1 Gas spill .

2 House fires Damages $19,500
1 Kitchen range

1 Fire place —

1 Hydro line down

72 Inhalator calls
57 Patients transported
378 Firemen attended
409 Man hours
4 Firemen off sick - total 30 days
Volunteers paged 2 times

Total damages - $19,500.

Total damages of $19,50C was to a home and adjacent home when fire
started in the basement area ‘n a person removed the gasoline from
a motorcyle and left it in‘an open container in the basement, possible
ignition from refrigerator or furnace,

72 inhalator calis, 48 home emergencies consisting of heart attacks,
strokes, a number with a form of a flu, domestic fights, home accidents
causing cuts and bruses, child drank an unknown fluid and a child had
a foreign material in the eye. Attended 15 motor vehicle accidents,

3 sport accidents, four fights and a boy lost part of his finger ina
boxcar door. ; . .

Port Coquitlam Firefighters collected $9,700 in the 1980 Muscular
Dystrophy Drive.

THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WISHES EVERYONE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY
NEW YEAR!

Summary for 1980 and same period in 1979
1980 1979
Fires and related incidents 274 damages $717,888 344 damages $303,900
Inhalator calls 597 576
Patients transported 480 ; 546 |

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