2017 Fire Department Annual Report

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2017 Annual Report • Fire Department • St. Anthony Village, Minnesota 15 | Page Incident Damage Passenger Vehicle Fire $1,000 vehicle and contents Cause determined to be residual heat from rags in bed of truck – just taken out of dryer Passenger Vehicle Fire $21,000 Vehicle and Contents Note the fire occurred during the night and was out when the called 911 Cause undetermined and not under investigation Hennepin County Fire Investigation Team along with Lt. Basara investigated this fire Deck Fire in Apartment Building $897 damage to the deck Cause determined to be careless smoking Passenger Vehicle Fire $1,400 Vehicle Cause determined to be oil leak in engine compartment Attic Fire $500 Structure Cause determined to be damaged electrical wiring Apartment Fire $150,000 in property, $10,000 in contents Cause determined to be unattended cooking *** This fire was controlled by the activation of 2 sprinkler heads. If there would have been no sprinklers this would have been much worse and would have possibly resulted in injury or death given the occupancy.*** There were several cooking incidents that resulted in no damage Property Contents Total 2017 Total Fire Loss $172,767 $12,030 $184,797 2016 Total Fire Loss $10,100 $17,100 $27,200 2015 Total Fire Loss $255,000 $255,000 As you can see from the information above it takes just one incident to drive up your fire loss. I have included information in the statistics section related to state wide fire loss. As with 2016 the presence of a sprinkler system saved probably millions of dollars in potential fire loss and prevented a high probability of fire death or serious injury.