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7. The number of pedestal hydrants was increased by twenty-eight while the number of ball hydrants was decreased by four during the year: the total number of hydrants now being 1,358, viz:-
Pedestal hydrants:- Hong Kong (including Peak) 162 Kowloon 118 Ball hydrants: Hong Kong (including Peak) 700 Kowloon (including New Territories) 378 Total 1,358The above were regularly inspected every quarter.
FIRES, LOSS OF LIFE AND RESCUES.
8. Fatalities at fires amounted to eighteen in all. One person, aged 86, was burned to death in a hut 6 × 6 feet in the remote village of Tung Tau. One person died from burns received as a result of the igniting of inflammable spirit in the yard of a house in Staunton Street. Four persons, including two children, were drowned and another person burned to death as a result of a fire which occurred on a junk in Tsun Wan Bay. Six persons perished as a result of the disastrous fire which occurred in a five-storeyed building in Eastern Street where they were trapped in a kitchen in the rear of the upper floor.
Three persons were suffocated while two others succumbed to their injuries at the fire which occurred in two adjoining four-storeyed buildings used as rattan-matting and card-board box factories and tenement dwellings in Reclamation Street. At this fire thirteen persons were rescued by Brigade appliances.
9. Two persons lost their lives as a result of the collapse of the third floor verandah of a private house in Yuk Shau Street, Wong Nei Chung.
STAFF KILLED OR INJURED IN THE EXECUTION OF DUTY.
10. Fireman, No. 77, Wu Choi, was killed as a result of the collapse of the floors at a fire in Queen's Road, Central.
Fourth Officer, G. C. Moss, received an injury to his right hand at a fire in Canton Road,
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7. The number of pedestal hydrants was increased by twenty-eight while the number of ball hydrants was decreased by four during the year: the total number of hydrants now being 1,358, viz:-
Pedestal hydrants:-
Hong Kong (including Peak)
Kowloon
162
118
Ball hydrants:
Hong Kong (including Peak)
700
Kowloon (including New Territories)
378
Total
1,558
The above were regularly inspected every quarter.
FIRES, LOSS OF LIFE AND RESCUES.
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8. Fatalities at fires amounted to eighteen in all. person, aged 86, was burned to death in a hut 6 × 6 feet in the remote village of Tung Tau. One person died from burns received as a result of the igniting of inflammable spirit in the yard of a house in Staunton Street. Four persons, includ- ing two children, were drowned and another person burned to death as a result of a fire which occurred on a junk in Tsun Wan Bay. Six persons perished as a result of the disastrous fire which occurred in a five-storeyed building in Eastern Street where they were trapped in a kitchen in the rear of the upper floor.
Three persons were suffocated while two others succumbed to their injuries at the fire which occurred in two adjoining four-storeyed buildings used as rattan-matting and card-board box factories and tenement dwellings in Reclamation Street. At this fire thirteen persons were rescued by Brigade appliances.
9. Two persons lost their lives as a result of the collapse of the third floor verandah of a private house in Yuk Shau Street, Wong Nei Chung.
STAFF KILLED OR INJURED IN THE EXECUTION OF DUTY.
10. Fireman, No. 77, Wu Choi, was killed as a result of the collapse of the floors at a fire in Queen's Road, Central.
Fourth Officer, G. C. Moss, received an injury to his right hand at a fire in Canton Road,
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