LIMA, OH (WLIO) - The number of fires in the city of Lima matched normal yearly averages according to Lima Fire Department Chief Andrew Heffner.
The yearly average for the total of fires in the city of Lima is usually set around 80, the year 2022 brought a total of 76. A previous posting from the Lima Fire Department says that there were a total of 113 building fires last year, but that number is false. A new data collection system for the department factored in small fires such as stove and kitchen fires.
"But what it did is actually put more in fires that we actually normally wouldn't have, like regular cooking fires, and we do not include those. So when you break it down with the numbers, we are running almost exactly what its average is, with 76 house fires this year. Which is 1.5 house fires a week, and that's been the normal average for the past ten years. It was just a difference in data collection and breaking it down and making sure we had the proper numbers," explained Chief Andrew Heffner, Lima Fire Department.
The department also took a total of 6,110 calls in 2022.
