Lake County Gazette

Buffalo Grove Fire District responded to 603 calls in 2018 - 6.5 percent less than the previous year, according to data from the National Fire Incident Reporting System.

The calls in Buffalo Grove included 83 fires - 63 structure fires, five vehicle fires and 15 other fires.

In all, the department saw $149,610 in fire loss - or about $1,803 per fire.

The department also received 520 false calls, including 13 malicious calls and 507 other false calls.

The calls resulted in one civilian fire-related injury. Additionally, one fire service member was injured in fire-related incidents and two were injured in non fire-related incidents.

The Buffalo Grove Firefighters Pension Fund, which has 56 active employees and 39 retired or inactive employees, was $5,180,894 positive as of December 2017, according to the fund's mandated filings with the Illinois Department of Insurance. That amounts to $55,116 for every fire in 2017.

	2017	2018	Year-over-year change (%)
Building Fires	51	63	23.5
Vehicle Fires	7	5	-28.6
Other Fires	36	15	-58.3
Total Fires	94	83	-11.7
Total Calls	645	603	-6.5