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THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM C 0 UJ i

SEP 13 1976

FIRE DEPARTMENT ~ AUGUST 1976

DAMAGES $2500
DAMAGES $25000
DAMAGES $2000

BARN FIRE

HOUSE FIRE
ORNAMENTAL TREE
CAMAGING HOUSE
CLOTHES DRYER
GARBAGE CONTAINERS
BUSH FIRES

CITY DUMP

CARPORT

PLAYGROUND FIRE
MALFUNCTION OF FIRE
ALARMS (SCHOOL)

GAS SPILL AT. A HOME
ASSISTED R.C.M.P.

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DAMAGES SLIGHT

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INHALATOR CALLS 31
PATIENTS TRANSPORTED 23

FIREMEN ATTENDED 199
MAN HOURS 220
VOLUNTEERS REMUNERATION $765.
VOLUNTEERS PAGED 5 TIMES

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$25,000 damages to a home where a 16 year old boy lost his life. Investigation
showed the fire started in a chesterfield end the probable cause was a lighted
cigarette. Approximately $2,500 damage to a barn under construction plus the loss
of the hay which had been put into the barn-shortly before the fire. There was no
electricity in the barn and no cause for the ignition other than spontaneous
combustion from the not: fully dry hay. Approximately $2,000 to a home which caught
fire from a lighted ornamental tree. The fire sturted by children playing with
matches. The R.C.M.P. requested a standby when a man threatened cther occupants in
an apartment before locking himself in a room. Malfunction of a fire alarms twice
in the same school caused when alarm system was being upgraded.

31 inhalator calls. 16 howe emergencies consisting of heart attacks, seizures,
haemorrhaging, strokes, falls causing cuts and broken bones. Attended one successful
suicide and one attempted suicide, two people injured from separate fights. One
motor vehicle accident and attended a boy who hit a hydro pole while riding his
bicyele. Two industrial accidents and 4 overdoses.

Summary to date and for same period in 1975.

‘ 1976 1975 .
Fire and related incidents 121 dameges $161,250 139 damage: $26,050
Inhalators . 278 357 :
Patients transported 237 323

see attached sheet for inspections and ambulance services.

c.c LL.D. Pollock W.S. Wingrove,
RUA. Freeman Fire Chief