THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM

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FEB 20 i978
TO: Mayor and Council February 14th, 1978

FROM: W.S. Wingrove,
Fire Chief

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: Fire Department Report ~ January 1978

House Damages $45,300
Furnace motors

Fire Alarms

Clothes dryer

Car Damages $600
Garbage containers

Mail box

False alarm

Gasolene fumes

Sprinkler alarm activated
Paper box

Smoke alarm activated

PERE PEW RE WN UI

47 Inhalator calls

39 Patients transported

314 Firemen attended

339 Man hours

3 Firemen off sick- total 16 days
Volunteers paged

Total Damages -— $45,900

Approximately $45,000 damages to home which started in the basement area. No one
was at home at the time of the fire caused by spontaneous combustion of artists
oil painting equipment. $300 damage to a kitchen cupboard caused by children
playing with matches, small basement wali fire caused by workmen thawing frozen
pipes and a fire place.was started with the damper closed causing the smoke alarms
to activate and filling the house with smoke.

One car fire caused by an electrical short, $600 damages resulted. Three fire
alarms set off, one in a kindergarten and two in commercial buildings. Sprinkler
alarm malfunctioned in the Mary Hill Hospital. Still getting a number of calls
to garbage containers, paper boxes and lately mail boxes.

47 Inhalator calls, 32 home emergencies consisting of heart attacks (some from
older people shoveling snow) Children suffering breathing problems from colds and
the flu. Epileptic seizures, strokes, severe nose bleed, injuries from domestic
fights and injuries caused from falls. Attended five sports accidents, fall from
a motorcycle, injuries to a student from a fight, two motor vehicle accidents,
industrial accident when a man had large splinter driven threw his arm and three
overdoses.

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