the extraordinary rate of development of multi-storey buildings in the Colony has been the 'levelling off' of emergency calls between winter and summer. This statement is borne out by the following analysis:
OUTBREAKS OF FIRE
April-October (traditional fire 'free' period) November-March (traditional fire season)
April 1964
May 1964
June 1964
July 1964
August 1964 September 1964
October 1964
November 1964
December 1964
January 1965.
February 1965
March 1965
DIRECT FINANCIAL LOSSES
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Total:
1712 fires (12 major) 1792 fires (7 major)
$ 26,865 2,588,331
274,547
1,335,615
2,027,464
36,929
131,735
455,242
1,580,774
632,762
642,570
38,765
$9,771,599
9. This levelling out process, if repeated in future years, will have a very substantial effect on Fire Service policy. In the past we have been able to work personnel during the winter months to the point of exhaus- tion knowing that they could relax and recuperate during the summer months when a reduction in standards of protection could be safely tolerated and they could be granted compensatory leave for the hundreds of hours of voluntary unpaid overtime performed by all ranks during the winter months. Moreover, Staff Officers, Workshops and Stores could look forward to a period when time could be found to catch up with backlog of work created during the 'Fire Season'. The disappearance of this operational 'off season' will, inter alia, make increases in man- power inevitable.
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