FIRE AND OTHER OCCURRENCES.
1. Calls received by the Brigade during the year amounted to 661 as against 589 for the preceding year. Classification of the calls are as follows:---
Fires
(a) Electrical:
(8) Oil:-
89
44
(c) House:-
(d) Chimney:
(e) Miscellaneous:
144
85
50
(f) Cars, etc. :--
23
(g) Grass & Undergrowth:
*
66
(h) Rubbish:-
20
(0) Ship:-
(1) Aircraft:-
False Alarms
With Good Intent:-
Malicious:
25
3
549
24
29
58
Special Services
Landslides, House Collapse,
etc.:
With the writing any
59
59
Total:
661
Estimated Fire Loss:-$2,122,901.
2. Brief details of serious and fatal fires during the period under review, are:-
22. 4. 50.
19. 5. 50.
10, Burrow Street, Wanchai. A four-floor building, used as an engineering workshop and dwelling, severely damaged by fire. The cause of this fire was due to carelessness by allowing a naked light to come in contact with paper decorations.
30, Hop Yick Street, Yuen Long, New Territories. A two floor brick building, used as a grocery shop and dwelling, severely damaged by fire smoke and water and collapse of roof and upper floor. The fire started on the ground floor near the staircase leading to the upper floor. The highly
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