1.
FIRE AND OTHER OCCURRENCES
A total of 630 calls were received and responded to by the Brigade during the year under review as against 695 for the preceding year. Classifications of these calls were as
follows:-
Fires:
House
Electrical
104
98
Chimney
64
Cars etc.
9
Oil
52
Grass & Shrubbery
64
Rubbish
20
Ship
13
Aircraft
2
Squatter
50
Miscellaneous
30
506
False Alarms:
With Good Intent
27
Electrical defects
5
Malicious
25
57
Special Services:
Landslides, House Collapse, drown-
ing 'etc.
Total
67
67
630
The estimated monetary loss by fires is $6,507,438.00 (Rate of exchange:
$16=£1).
2. The number of serious fires was not as great as in previous years. I append hereunder brief details of the more
notable fires:
5th July, 1953-Lighter “Kwan Yick 15”. A disastrous fire involving 43 drums (10 tons) of Nitrocellulose film scrap stowed on board the lighter "Kwan
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