Bloomington Fire Department aims to improve response times

Posted on August 21, 2017

By Eric Stock

BLOOMINGTON – Bloomington Fire Chief Brian Mohr will outline the department’s plans to try to reduce response times Monday during a presentation at a City Council Committee of the Whole meeting.

The fire department has raised the idea of building a new fire station on the city’s northeast side where response times for fire and emergency calls have posed the biggest challenge. The department is still short of reaching a six-minute response time for 90 percent of its calls, which is a performance standard set by the National Fire Protection Association.

The meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. at City Hall. The city council is not expected to take any action.

The committee is also scheduled to review its five-year capitol improvement plan and get an update on priority-based budgeting.

Eric Stock can be reached at [email protected].

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