LOOGETON Cr ThE CHY OF

FIRE DEPARTMENT - FEURUARY 1976

MAR 8 1976

HOUSE FIRES DAMAGE $150
INDUS TRIAL NO DAMAGE

FURNACE

GRASS OR BUSH

NUISANCE CALL

INHALATOR CALLS
PATIENTS TRANSPORTED

FIREMEN ATTENDED
MAN HOURS

VOLUNTEERS REMUNERATION $150
VOLUNTEERS PAGED | 2 TIMES

FIREMEN OFF SICK 9 TOTAL 21 DAYS

Damages approximately $150. Three calls to homes, one when a chesterfield cushion
was burning caused by a cigarette, one when a house was full of smoke caused by a
faulty electrical plug and the other when a blanket caught fire trom a radio that had
fallen and short-circuited. ‘wo industrial fires, both at C.P.R. and in both cases
old o11 and rags burning(different locations). Call to an oil furnace smoking and
smelling found to be not properly set causing the chimney to soot up.

42 inhalator calls. 25 home emergencies consisting of heart attacks, strokes, asthmatic
attack, epileptic seizure, diabetic convulsion, a number of people suffering with flu,

falls causing injuries and cuts, pregnant Jady with complications and a child in convulsions.
Attended 4 motor vehicle accidents, three overdoses and attended a man with injuries due

to an altercation on a bus. Went to a lady in distress when her baby was inadvertently
locked in a room. Last but not least, a baby was delivered in the inhalator while
transporting to hospital. 2 industrial calls, one when a man fell from a box car and

the other to a man with a crushed foot.

Summary to date and for same p2riod in 1975.

1976 1975

Fires and related incidents 32 damages $5,150 26 damages $2,675 ©

73 82

Inhalator calls
71

Patients transported 59

See attached sheet for inspections and ambulance service.

W.S. Wingrove,
Fire Chief.

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C.c. L.D. Pollock
R.A. Freeman