*

SUMMARY OF CALLS

67. Fires

Aircraft

Buildings: (a) Domestic premises

+

(b) Non-domestic premises

Chimneys

Electrical

Vegetation

Motor Transport

Ships

Miscellaneous small fires

Squatter areas

False alarms: (a) with good intent

(b) malicious

68. Special Services

*

Landslides, house collapse, drowning, etc.

69. Ambulance Calls

Emergencies

Ordinary removals to and from hospitals and clinics

70. Summary of alarms for the year was as follows:

1st alarms and small fires

2nd alarms

3rd alarms

4th alarms

5th alarms

Disaster alarms

Special services

+

1

500

439

44

814

613

166

*

24

607

42

167

87

728

26,296

34,103

3,327

31

127

15

4

728

FIRES OF PARTICULAR INTEREST

5TII ALARM-MAINLAND

71. At 2 a.m. on the 19th July 1964 a fire broke out in a 7-storey building of R.C.C. construction used as a flatted factory, for the manufacture of plastic flowers; textiles; rattan furniture and plastic buttons.

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