THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM C 0 Uj y
MEMORANDUM :

DEC 11 1978

TO: Mayor and Council December 8th, 1978

FROM: W.S. Wingrove,
: Fire Chief

Port Coquitlam Fire Department Reprrt -— November 1978

Fireplace Chimney

Alarms Ringing ; ,
B.C. Hydro Pole and Fuse Box
Garbage Containers

Furnace Motor

Home Fires Damages $15,750
Motor Vehicle

Stump

Clothes Dryer

Commercial

Gasoline Spill

Inhalator Calls

Patients Transported

Firemen Attended

Man Hours

Firemen off sick - total 13 days
Volunteers Paged 5 times.

Total Damages ~ $15,750

$15,000 damage to home which was vandalized while owners were out and
eight different fires set throughout the home. $600 in kitchen fire caused
when owner, while frying with oil, had the frying pan light on fire. $100
damage to a bed caused by children playing with matches. $50 damage to
home possibly caused by a soldering torch. No damage to three homes with
electrical fires. .

Eight alarms ringing, three to industrial building caused by fluctuating
water pressures. The other five to schools with four turned on by persons
unknown and one by a short circuit. One commercial was to a chair set on
fire by persons unknown in a drive-in.

53 inhalator calls. 28 home emergencies consisting of strokes, heart
attacks, epileptic seizures, child in convulsions, haemorrhaging due to recent
operation, over indulgence in alcohol, falls causing cuts and fractures and
four overdoses. Attended ten motor vehicle accidents, two people hit by a
vehicle, four sport accidents and transported a man with a broken leg caused
when his leg got caught in a boat drive shaft. Three industrial accidents,

all involving falls.
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