Peoria fire officials are, again, asking for public safety resources to be restored.
This comes after back-to-back weekend house fires where three firefighters were injured, two of which briefly ended up in the hospital.
Rubble, grime, and debris are all the charred remains from one of the fires Saturday night/Sunday morning at the 800 block of West Richmond avenue. “There wasn’t a crew on Saturday night, early Sunday morning that works in the city of Peoria that wasn’t involved in these two fires,” Jim Bachman, Peoria fire chief, said. “We used every resource we had and in fact, we called in five extra people.”
Bachman thanked all of the responding firefighters and said he couldn’t be more proud of them.
“It was a tough night, but the firefighters for sure did an excellent job,” Bachman said.