FIRES AND SPECIAL SERVICES OF PARTICULAR
INTEREST
45. Fire calls in Hong Kong are classified as follows:
1st alarms
***
2nd alarms (where Dangerous Goods are known to be stored)
3rd alarms
4th alarms
(and/or persons unaccounted for)
5th alarms
Disaster alarms
+
0-5 jets
***
5 - 10 jets
11 - 25 jets
***
26 - 50 jets
All resources
46. Each category of alarm is answered by a pre-determined attendance of appliances and manpower which, as stated in the preceding paragraph, was specially increased during the 1963-64 period of water shortage.
47. Summary of alarms for the year was as follows:
1st alarms
2nd alarms
3rd alarms
4th alarms
5th alarms
***
***
Disaster alarms
***
***
***
2,428
3
每毁
50
***
5
1
Nil
432
***
Special services
***
(N.B. Apart from 1 Emergency Tender and 2 ambulances, total response to Special Service Calls is determined by Mobilizing Officers in the light of informa- tion supplied by the caller, or the Officer Commanding at the incident).
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FIRES
Pottinger Street, Hong Kong
48. If one needed evidence that it is the contents of a building which provide a fire problem, the fire which broke out just before dawn on 14th September, 1963 on the 5th floor of an R.C.C. building provided an illustration. A defective electric exhaust fan caused a fire amongst stationery. The building became rapidly smoke logged, and personnel who arrived on the 1st Attendance could only gain access to the floor of origin by the use of breathing apparatus. Fire damage was confined to the 5th floor, but water damage on lower floors was extremely heavy, as evidenced by a loss of $400,000 in the fire which was brought under control in less than one hour.
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