Bloomington Fire Department Incident Responses with System Transition Notes

Daily updated records of the Bloomington Fire Department's responses to service calls, with data spanning before and after a July 1, 2023, records management system transition. The dataset includes calculated response times and is managed by the City of Bloomington's ITS Applications team. Data is current as of March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire department response times based on the calculated 'response_time' field mentioned in the description.
• Study the impact of a records management system transition on data continuity and quality.
• Monitor daily incident call volumes and patterns for a specific city department.
• Assess operational performance metrics for municipal public safety reporting.

Strengths

• Data is updated daily, providing near real-time operational visibility.
• Includes a documented system transition (July 1, 2023) with efforts to preserve data continuity.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats: CSV, JSON, RDF, and XML.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description notes potential data anomalies like negative response times due to system transition and update delays.

Provenance

Source

City of Bloomington

Collection Method

Operational records from the Fire Department's Records Management System (RMS).

Time Range

Data spans periods before and after July 1, 2023.

Freshness

Updated daily; last metadata update was 2026-03-22.

Geography

Bloomington, Indiana, USA (inferred from organization).