Show REPORT Of FIRES fIES V TilE THE YEAR Chief Vail Vai Completes Annual Record to be Submitted to Mayor WANTS JANTS MORE EQUIPMENT I I Three Hundred Fourteen Blazes Fought and and- Many False Alarms Answered That t tho ho o city extend and Rod Improve tim tho fire fre alarm system purchase a new combination chemical wagon that all 01 hose wagons he equipped with wih gal 35 Ion lon chemical cylinders that 2000 feet of or fire fre hose be Se purchased also an en n aerial truck with wih rubber n. n n nn to hn ho hI I I I n used as ns a fuel Cuel wagon rind and a 0 l light ht wagon agon for tor or dep department nt service and new boilers for tor ho steamers as a the pr present sent ones are arc In bad shape and ad not fit ft for Cor service ser sor- V vice vice these these are arc arc areV somo of or the tho recommendations sot forth Corth I In the annual report re reA port of or Fire FIro Chief Charles CharIs T. T van Vail for forthe forthe the time yel year 1907 which ho will present to the mayor maor and ant city council at th the meeting Monday londa night Ho also ad- ad that tho board of or public works be Instructed to advertise for bids for Cor a anew anew new now floor noor n engine house No 3 3 as tho the present one is In bad condition The report shows that In aU all 31 fires tres were attended during the year ear which is the greatest In the history of ot I tho the department department Included In this report Is 13 that of or Superintendent C C. J. J Shelly SheU of or the lire fire tre alarm system Mr Shelly's report showed ii in part that there tHero were 72 alarm boxes in that system of ot which GO 60 belonged belong d to the Site city an and the time balance balance bal hal ance mince to Individual concerns There are about 1 11 miles miEs of or wire of or which about 2 26 per cent Is cantIs Is In bad shape Tho The wires belonging belonging to the tho city have all aJ been beems re removed removed removed re- re moved from Crom time the poles In tho the business section and Mr Shelly heU su suggests that the city purchase 25 new Gamewell fire firo fro alarm call cnn boxes for COr tile the betterment of or the tho service The loss from trot firc in the year car 1907 was the Insurance Involved and property I involved ocd worth t Stretched II Hu no The Tho cost of or running tho timo department for Cor the year ear or the expenditures was as follows follows- Salaries cost of ot operating GS making a 0 total expense of or The Time firo fro traveled niles miles mies In answering 2 alarms and ando and o from call cal boxes stretched feet of hose hoso and were hours and 5 S I minutes In actual serIce ser ser- vice Ice The following report will UI give an l Idea ca of or the tho work done one h by ly the department depart depart- ment mont In the the last laRt year In comparison with that of ot the s seventeen enteen years ears previous pre pro The report shows the tho year number number num num- ber her of alarms and losses as ns follows foJos 1800 1890 82 1891 1801 13 95 13 J 1893 lG 1894 l 1895 S Ut 1896 1 V n 1898 9 77 1839 9 11 t 3 1 1001 IOl 90 1902 isoz L S 1903 1 IS 30 45 5 I II 1904 11 1905 26 05 I 1906 1907 1 32 06 OG There were 21 c causes uses ranging from children anti and nc matches cl cigars and cig- cig arct to rubbish and grass of which In there all an were were answered 41 4 one Fifty one false alarms |