THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM C () U fh a ft REPORT _ JAN 9 1978 Mayor and Council January 4th, 1978 W.S. Wingrove, Fire Chief Re: Fire Department Report - December 1977 Outbuilding (industrial) Wash down gasoline spills car fires ~ no damage Burning without a permit Stump fire Fire alarms Chimney Furnace motor Apartment (chesterfield) - $300 damage Garbage containers or nuisance calls Trailer Carport (double with 2 vehicles) - $12,000 damage Duplex - $300 damage PRR UREN We ba PE 46 Inhalator calls 40 Patients transported 306 Firemen attended 353 Man hours 3 Firemen off sick total 10 days Volunteers remuneration $682.50 Volunteers paged 3 times. Total Damages - $12,600 Approximate $12,000 damage to a double carport with storage areas at one end and two vehicles. This fire along with two others on the same night are under investigation as being set. The other two were to a vacant duplex causing about $300 damage and to the front seat of an old vehicle. All three were on the north side not too far apart. $300 damage to a chesterfield in an apartment possibly caused by a lighted cigarette. An abandoned building was set on fire at the old gravel pit. Four car fires with little or no damage. 3 calls for fire alarms ringing in schools, 1 by design and the other 2 malfunctioned. Two burning without permits are being charged by the R.C.M.P. 46 inhalator calls, 31 to home emergencies with the majority being for people suffering the flu. The remainder consisted of heart attacks, children in convulsions, strokes, falls causing injuries, epileptic seizures, over indulgence in alcohol, diabetic coma, gall bladder attack and two different crews delivered two babies less than 24 hours apart, both in the early hours of the morning. Attended 7 motor vehicle accidents, a man from Riverview who had fallen in the river and a lady who had fallen on the ice. One [2.eee