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REPORT OF THE
SUPERINTENDENT
OF THE
HONG KONG FIRE BRIGADE FOR THE YEAR 1930.
Calls-The number of calls received during the year totalled 186. Actual fires 133, chimney fires 16, collapses 5, landslides 5 and false alarms 27.
Compared with the previous year (1929) there is a decrease of 51 calls.
There were ten serious fires, details of which appear in Table III.
Of the false alarms eight were maliciously given, eleven were given with good intent, and eight were due to electrical faults.
How received.-By street Fire Alarm 48; by Telephone 120; from Police 11; from Messengers 7.
LIVES LOST; PERSONS RESCUED.
Twelve persons lost their lives due directly or indirectly to fire. (Six within City limits and six in the New Territories).
Three persons were rescued at fires by means of Fire Brigade appliances.
Six persons lost their lives as a result of collapses and landslides, while three persons were extricated alive by the Brigade from same.
HEALTH OF STAFF.
During the year there were 362 cases of illness, viz., European officers 11, Chinese members 351.
COMMENDATION.
(a) His Excellency the Governor was pleased to commend highly Assistant Station Officer J. W. Woollard for the promptness, courage and resource with which he effected the rescue of three persons from the fire at Shanghai Street, Yaumati, on the 18th March, while the Chief Officer, the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G. was pleased to commend Sub-Officer LAM HUNG KEE for the work he performed on the above occasion.
(b) Sub-Officer LAU TAK KWONG was highly commended by the Inspector General of Police, Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G. for his praiseworthy conduct in securing the arrest of two snatch thieves, one on the 18th April and one on the 26th June.