Fire Brigade Emergency Service Received 796 Calls n September: Spate of Incendiary Fires Because of the war, September, like August, proved? an exceptionally tenuous month for the Shanghai Fire Brigade and set a record for the number of emergency ambulance in any month. The report to he Council of Capt. J. Gordon Dyson, Chief Officer of the Brigade, gives the interesting figures and other data.
The number of fires and special calls attended was exceptionally high, being forty in excess of the total number oltonded in September last year, while the emergency ambulances responded to the record number of 796 calls, exceeding the previous highest monthly total received n August this year by fourteen alls. Of the total of 956 patients handled by the emergency ambulance service, 348 were "war" casualties suffering from shrapnel, bomb and bullet wounds, etc.
The damage and value of property at risk at fires which the Brigade attended within the Settlement and in the Special Rated area were estimated at:—
Damace hin the Settlement Special Rated Area Total Brigade had in combatting them; no less then 4,1 Imperial gallons of water were used, this being nearly twice as much as the total quantity the Brigade attended whole of last year.
In several instances the detachments working at fires had to leave their posts to take cover until shelling or bombing had ceased (as they did on six occasions on the night of the 18th/19th) and in some cases the crews had to dismount from machines and take cover through shel drop by then, as s. ete they proceeded t fires.
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