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THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM
MEMORANDUM
Mayor and Council ; . July 6th, 1978

W.S. Wingrove,
Tire Chief

PORT COQUITLAM FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORT ~- June 1978

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House fires damages‘ nil

School fires damages nil

Fire alarms

Garbage containers

‘Car fires damages approximately $75.00
Bush fires

Electrical motor

Vacant industrial building

Industrial damages slight
Ornamental tree damages slight

Inhalator calls

Patients transported

Firemen attended

Man hours

Firemen off sick ~ total 33 days
Volunteers paged - 6 times

Total damages — $75.00

The only damage was to a car caused by a blow back from the carburetor. Calls to
home were for a fire caused by a soldering torch igniting insulation and a over-
heated electrical cord. 2 School fires; one when a painter left a cover over a
boiler which ignited when the boiler was fired, the other was possibly children
playing with matches at a school entrance. Industrial fire was to a sawdust blower
which extracts sawdust from machines in a door factory caused by a welder's torch.
Ornamental tree at a shopping centre.

46 Inhalator calls, 18 home emergencies consisting of heart attacks, epileptic
seizure, burns and falls causing injuries. 3 Industrial accidents, crushed hand
and arm by a dough machine roller, back and head injuries when hit by a moving
train and a worker had his finger crushed at a steel foundery. Attended 4 bicycle
mishaps, 2 sport accidents, helped a lady get into her home after she had locked
herself out, 13 motor vehicle accidents, child hit by a car, girl attacked and 4
overdoses.

Summary for 1978 and same period 1977

1978 1977
Fire calls and related: incidents 143 damages $241,675 123 damages $163,360

Inhalator calls 291 201
Patients transported — 218 149

WSW/alp W.S. Wingrove
Fire Chief