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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

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