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THE WORK OF THE BIRKENHEAD FIRE AND AMBULANCE FLEET.
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TEIE fire and ambulance department of the Birkenhead Corporation, of which the chief officer is Mr. J. T. Burns, has ordered a new Leyland fireengine of 50 h.p. The purchase of another engine of 65 h.p. from the same maker has been recommended by the watch committee, but seemingly the finance committee of the town council is not yet convinced that the old machine it is proposed to displace is beyond repair. Consequently the watch committee is giving further consideration to its first decision.
The present Are-fighting fleet comprises a Leyland 85-ft. turntable escape, two Dennis 450-gallon motor pumps, equipped with telescopic ladders, a Leyland •motor' pump of 600 gallons capacity equipped with a 16-ft escape, a Leyland trailer pump, and a G.M.C. van for the transport of resuscitating outfits,-'sthohe helmets, chemical extinguishers, etc. The ambulance fleet comprises three units, a Daimler, an Austin and a Minerva. The area served by the ambulances is precisely that covered by the fire-brigade, which is the protecting authority for 23 rural districts within an area of 12 miles.
The total loss occasioned by fires during 1928, in the whole of the area for which the brigade is the protecting authority, has been assessed at £9,073, this being a decrease of £107,565 on the 1927 loss of £206,638,, which was exceptionally heavy. The 1928 figure of fire losses is the lowest for 10 years, except for 1923, when it was only £8,823. • The Joss from fire within the borough ,boundaries of Birkenhead wits £5,775, the amount at risk being £545,201. The remaining lass of 1.3,928 occurred in the outside piotectsd areas, whore property to -thevalue of £19,670 was estimated to be at risk. The number
of calls to fires or supposed fires was 145, an increase of 24 compared with the year 1927; of this number 19 were attended by the brigade in the protected areas. The brigade was engaged at fires 113 hours 45 minutes, or an average of about 55.34 minutes at each fire. The distance travelled was 438 miles, or an average of about 3 miles per journey. Seventy fires occurred between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., and 75 between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
During the year, the ambulances received 1,600 calls to accident cases, etc., this being an increase of 318 compared with 1927, and, in addition, 178 cases were treated at the stations. The time occupied oa the various jourpeys was 945 hours 47 minutes, or an average of about 35.46 minutes per journey, and the distance travelled was 6,952 Miles, or an average of about 4.3 miles per journey.