FIRES AND OTHER OCCURRENCES
The Fire Brigade responded to a total of 1,117 calls during the year under review as against 971 for the preceding year. These calls are classified as follows:-
1.
Fires:
Buildings
509
Electrical
141
Chimneys
43
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Motor Vehicles
42
Grass & Shrubbery
90
Ships
18
Squatter areas
27
Miscellaneous
31
901
False Alarms:
With Good Intent
28
Malicious
82
110
1,011
Special Services:
Landslides, House Collapse,
Drowning etc.
106
106
Total
1,117
The estimate of monetary loss by fires is $2,235,250.10. A Graph showing the number of fire calls attended and estimated monetary losses by fire from 1st April, 1955 to 31st March, 1956 appears in Appendix I.
2.
The number of serious fires showed a decrease; details of the more notable ones are appended below:
14th Apr., 1955-A 2-storey building in the squatter area at Li Cheng Uk Village caught fire when a tin of kerosene was knocked over and came in contact with a lighted chatty. The fire broke out at 16.33 hours and gained a firm hold on
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