Peoria Standard

Peoria Fire District responded to 2019 calls in 2018 - 3.7 percent less than the previous year, according to data from the National Fire Incident Reporting System.

The calls in Peoria included 538 fires - 309 structure fires, 86 vehicle fires and 143 other fires. The fire department also responded to 17 calls for ruptures, explosions or overheating.

In all, the department saw $4,534,491 in fire loss - or about $8,428 per fire.

The department also received 1464 false calls, including 177 malicious calls and 1287 other false calls.

The calls resulted in 13 civilian fire-related injuries and one civilian fire-related death. Additionally, 13 fire service members were injured in fire-related incidents and 11 were injured in non fire-related incidents.

	2017	2018	Year-over-year change (%)
Building Fires	322	309	-4
Vehicle Fires	87	86	-1.1
Other Fires	175	143	-18.3
Total Fires	584	538	-7.9
Total Calls	2,096	2,019	-3.7