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THE CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON
REPORT
Meeting:
GENERAL PURPOSE AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE File # PIt, G z:
JANUARY 17, 2000 Res.#GI/I-YI-oo
Date:
Report #:
FD-03-00
10.12.6
By-law #
Subject:
MONTHLY FIRE REPORT - DECEMBER, 1999
RECOMMENDATIONS:
It is respectfully recomrnended that the General Purpose and Adrninistration
Committee recommend to Council the following:
THAT Report FD-03-00 be received for information.
1. BACKGROUND
1.1 Our report covers the rnonth of December, 1999. It is our intent to provide
Cornrnittee with inforrnation relevant to this departrnent, in a tirnely rnanner.
2. REPORT
2.1 The department responded to 190 calls in December and recorded total fire loss
at $532,000. A breakdown of the calls responded to follows.
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MONTH YEAR MONTH YEAR
ENDING TO ENDING TO
CLASSIFICATION DEC./99 DATE DEC./98 DATE
1999 1998
PROPERTY FIRES
Oncludes structure, chimney,vehicle, miscellaneous 22 302 15 251
e.g. furniture, clothing, etc.)
UNAUTHORIZED BURNING 4 108 8 102
(Burning complaints)
FALSE FIRE CALLS
(Includes alarm activations- accidental/malicious, 23 340 20 286
human-perceived emergencies/check calls e.g.
investigate unknown odour)
PUBLIC HAZARD CALLS
(Includes propane/natural gas leaks, fuel/chemical 32 263 34 222
spills, power lines down/arcing, C.O. leaks, etc.)
RESCUE CALLS
(Includes vehicle extrication/accidents, 35 335 29 297
commercial/industrial accidents, home/residential
accidents, water/ice rescue)
MEDICAL ASSIST CALLS
(Includes assist to ambulance personnel with 56 678 54 605
respiratory and resuscitation emergencies)
MISCELLANEOUS CALLS
(Includes assist to other agencies, other public 18 155 11 90
service, etc.)
TOTAL CALLS 190 2,181 171 1,853
TOTAL FIRE LOSS $532,000 $3,399,461 $222,100 $1,112,300
ST. #1
93
NUMBER OF ALARMS BY STATION
ST. #2 ST. #3 ST. #4 ST. #5
15 19 52 11
TOTAL
190
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2.2 As of Decernber 31, 1999 we have responded to 167 carbon rnonoxide calls of
which 50 had unusual readings.
2.3 The total nurnber of calls for 1999 increased by approximately 18 percent. The
dollar loss was substantially higher in 1999 as a result of several structure fires.
The most damaging occurred at a private residence on February 24, 1999
resulting in a total loss of building and contents in the 1.2 million dollar range.
2.4 On November 24, 1999, the fire department responded to a VIA train derailment
on the C.N.A. tracks between Holt Road and Symons Road in Bowmanville. This
event prompted the response from numerous agencies including personnel from
Clarington Fire Department, Ontario Power Darlington, Durham Regional Police,
Ambulance, Canadian National Railways, Ontario Transportation Safety Bureau
and GO Transit to narne a few.
With Durharn Regional Police and Canadian National Railways each bringing their
rnobile Command Post on scene, it allowed all agencies to have a representative
gather in the command post, and participate in the debriefings and updates.
Because the event was handled with sufficient manpower and agencies on scene,
there was no need to activate the Municipal Operations Centre. Considering the
amount of people on scene, everything worked extremely well.
At present time the Transportation Safety Bureau is investigating the derailrnent.
2.5 Effective Septernber 6, 1999 we initiated 24 hour coverage at the Courtice Fire
Station. In order to accomplish this goal it was necessary to hire eight more
suppression staff mernbers. This was completed in two stages, four people were
hired in January, 1999 and four in July, 1999.
2.6 In 1999, Council also approved hiring a Fire Inspector to assist the departrnent
its fire prevention goals. Effective October 18, 1999 the Fire Prevention Division
'consists of two staff rnernbers with the hiring of the Fire Inspector.
2.7 The Fire Prevention Division was actively involved in the Risk Watch Prograrn, a
comprehensive injury prevention curriculum for children in preschool through
Grade 8. Several rneetings were hosted at the Clarington Fire Departrnent
Headquarters Station in Bowrnanville during 1999 and the prograrn is currently
being test piloted in three schools in this Municipality.
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2.8 The Alarmed for Life Program continued in 1999 with the statistics indicating a
need for public education to increase the number of families with home escape
plans. It is this departrnent's desire to increase our efforts in this area during the
year 2000.
A total of 555 homes were visited by Clarington Firefighters in 1999. Ninety-two
percent of the smoke alarms tested were in working order. Three percent of the
households visited did not wish to participate in the inspection. Fifty-three
percent of the hornes visited had CO detectors installed.
The Wilmot Creek Retirement Village was also visited by our firefighters. Of the
118 homes visited 81 % had working srnoke alarms. Thirty-eight percent of the
households visited had CO detectors installed.
2.9 Once again Clarington Firefighters will continue the Alarmed for Life Prograrn by
visiting homes to ensure that all have working srnoke alarms and home escape
plans.
2.10 In 1999, Clarington Fire Departrnent becarne involved with the Durham Regional
Police and Durham Health Department in the Race Against Drugs (RAD) program.
Clarington Fire's component will be a one day fire safety display and educational
prograrn to be set up at the Garnet Rickard Cornplex in the summer of 2000.
Grade 5 students will be bused in to take part in this presentation.
2.11 During 1999 all full time and part-time firefighters recertified in Defibrillator use.
Currently, the full tirne cornplement have cornpleted Cornponent 2 of the Ontario
Firefighter Curriculum and are progressing to certification of the third component.
The part-time complement has just started Component 2 of the Curriculurn.
2.12 A driver training program was initiated in 1999. This program was designed to
better prepare drivers conducting circle checks, up-grade driving techniques and
their knowledge of driving and traffic regulations.
2.13 The new dispatch software prograrn, Crisys, was installed late in 1999. While we
are responding to calls using this new system, work is still being cornpleted to
bring all of the cornponents into use.
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3. RECOMMENDATIONS
3.1 It is respectfully recornrnended that report FD-03-00 be received for information.
Respectfully submitted,
Reviewed by
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Michael G. Crei
Fire Chief.
Franklin Wu,
Chief Administrative Officer
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