od

. TNE CSNPORATION OF THE CHY OF PONT €oguituis

August 17th, 1973

: COU

- Fire Department Monthly Revort for July, 1973 AUG 20 197%

motorcycle fire

washdown of a gasoline spill .
inhalator calls

patients transported

2 house fires

1 picnic shelter roof fire

1 garbage container fire

5 stump or bush fires

1 car fire

2 garbage fires in the City dump
1 shed fire

i

1

Ol
_

As
ww

siren sounded twice

188 firemen attended

: 188 man hours

$90 remuneration .
%3 firemen absent 4 days each

i $700 damages

Damage was little to a home when fire started in the kitchen when fumes from contact
cement ignited from the gas pilot light. Considerable more damege occurred to a.
home when a fire broke out in the livirg room, vossibly starting from a short circuit
& » g
in an electric wall clock. There was some damage to an outbuilding, cause unknown.
co 9

Over the past 2 months, we have had a number of calls to burning garbage containers

$ ‘ = 9
they are under investigation by the k.C.M.P. A small fire started on the roof of the
‘ picnic shelter at Lions Park from hot sparks from the chimney. Since the fire, a :
| j screen. spark arrester has been installed.

; 34 inhalator calls with 31 patients transported. 15 home emergencies consisting of

: strokes, heart attacks, falls causing injuries, veorle having trouble breathing and

: ene case of electric shock. 6 motor vehicle accidents and attented a boy who was
knocked off his bicycle by a car. Another boy fell from his bicycle breaking his Leg.
Attended a man who had been beaten up, also attended 4 separate cases of drunkenness

i and 3 cases of overdoses.

Three possible arson attemots from June are still under investigation. An Order
° issued under the Fire Marshal's Act to change the occupancy of an apartment was
apnealed to the Provincial Fire Marshal. There was a hearing held at the arart-
ment site and the Fire Marshal has not come to a decision. Another apartment has
been charged for not complying with orders issued under the Fire Marshal's Act and
apvears in court near the end of August.

For insvections, see attached sheet.

WSil/ese

e.c, 1.2). Pollack
QA, Freeman