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In addition to the annual overhaul, No. 1 Fire Float was provided with new water-ends at a cost of $6,000. No. 2 motor Fire Float was overhauled and slipped as required.
9. All other appliances and equipment were examined and tested every month.
10. The numbers of both Pedestal and Underground hydrants were increased by 17 and 18 respectively during the year; the total number of hydrants is now 1,489 viz:
Hong Kong (including Peak) Kowloon (including New Territories) Total Pedestal hydrants: 202 159 Underground hydrants: 730 398 Total........ 1,489All hydrants were inspected quarterly.
SPECIAL EVENTS.
11. Fires.
(a) One Chinese male, aged 35 years, died of suffocation and burns received at a fire at 125, Bonham Strand, East, on 20/1/1937.
(b) During the course of repairs to the oil tanker, s.s. Willy at Kowloon Docks on 23/2/1937, a fire and explosion occurred due to an unsuspected accumulation of oil in a disused oil pipe line. The use of naked lights resulted in the fire and explosion; four persons were removed to Hospital, one of whom died of severe burns.
(c) Called to extinguish a small fire which had broken out in a kitchen at No. 323, Reclamation Street, 3rd floor on 28/2/1937, the Brigade discovered,
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