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SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1975
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BUSY YEAR FOR FIRE PREVENTION BUREAU
THE FIRE PREVENTION BUREAU OF THE FIRE SERVICES DEPARTMENT CARRIED OUT ALMOST 183,000 INSPECTIONS, RE-INSPECTIONS AND FOLLOW-UP VISITS DURING THE 1974-75 FINANCIAL YEAR.
THE MAJORITY OF THE INSPECTIONS WERE CONNECTED WITH COMPLAINTS ABOUT MEANS OF ESCAPE FROM BUILDINGS (67,126) AND 16,254 WERE RELATED TO GENERAL COMPLAINTS.
MORE THAN 50,000 INSPECTIONS OF FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL PREMISES WERE UNDËRTAKEN, INSPECTIONS RELATED TO THE STORAGE AND CARRIAGE OF DANGEROUS GOODS NUMBERED 0,064,
APART FROM LOOKING INTO COMPLAINTS ABOUT MEANS OF ESCAPE, THE BUREAU ALSO CARRIES OUT REGULAR VISITS TO INDUSTRIAL AND RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS TO ENSURE THAT EXITS ARE FREE OF OBSTRUCTION, LAST YEAR, THERE WERE 10,943 REGULAR VISITS. THE VENTILATION DIVISION INSPECTED 11,269 SYSTEMS IN DUILDINGS AND IN INDUSTRY.
SCHOOL INSPECTIONS TOTALLED 6,940, AND THERE WERE 3,107 INSPECTIONS OF RESTAURANTS AND NIGHT-CLUBS. OTHER INSPECTIONS INCLUDED FIRE SERVICE INSTALLATIONS (4,104), CINEMAS AND THEATRES (522), MATSHEDS (192), DANCE HALLS AND ACADEMIES (147) BILLIARD- ROOMS (63), TIMBER-YARDS (395), NEON-SIGNS (03), AND MISCELLANEOUS (817). A TOTAL OF 262 FIRES WERE ALSO INVESTIGATED.
OVER 700 ITEMS OF FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT SUCH AS EXTINGUISHERS AND HOSE WERE DELIVERED BY THE BUREAU TO GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS AND QUARTERS.
THE NUMBER OF PLANS RECEIVED AND PROCESSED IN RESPECT OF NEW BUILDING PROJECTS WAS 5,612.
DURING THE YEAR 7,249 FIRE HAZARD ABATEMENT NOTICES WERE ISSUED AND 894 PROSECUTIONS UNDERTAKEN, REVENUE EARNED TOTALLED $930,000 OF WHICH $530,920 CAME FROM THE ISSUE AND RENEWAL OF 2.745 DANGEROUS GOODS LICENCES, $333,585 FROM FINES, $20,400 FROM THE ISSUE AND RENEWAL OF 204 TIM LICENCES AND THE BALANCE ($45,095) FROM CONFISCATED DANGEROUS GOODS.
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