Past Fires

Our Last Fire:
September 02, 2003 - False alarm at a house on the Comeau's Hill Road

The following is a list of what types of fires that the former Wedgeport & Plymouth Fire Department have deal with, and how many they've had each year since 1998.

Structure
Fires
Chimney
Fires
MVA Mutual
Aid
Grass &
Brush
Medical Calls Halloween
Incidents
Other
Emerg.
Misc. Total
1998 2 3 1 0 3 0 1 8 23 41
1999 1 6 5 5 3 2 na 10* 15 47
2000 2 3 4 3 2 1 5 2 11 29
2001 0 3 3 3 6 2 6 7 7 37
2002 0 2 2 2 2 0 na 3 11 22
2003 4 2 0 0 1 0 0 6 * 4 17
MVA - Motor Vehicle Accident
Other Emerg. - Other emergencies such as electrical fires, CO2 alarms, wires down, false alarms, forest fires, boat fires, dumpster fires, camper fires, gas spills and floods.
Misc. - Miscellaneous activites such as pumping wells & basements, training, parades, traffic control, burning unfit buildings and filling sprinkler systems at the schools in our area.
na - not available

* Assisted with a forest fire in the Woods Harbour & Shag Harbour areas of Shelburne County. Shag Harbour & many other fire departments were in attendance.

* Helped during flooding in the Quinan area.

This page was last updated on June 26, 2003



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