The Chicago Fire Department still doesn’t accurately measure response times to fire and medical emergencies twelve years after the inspector general office sounded the first of multiple alarms on the issue, a new report concluded Thursday.

In 2013, then-Inspector General Joe Ferguson reported that CFD did not meet the National Fire Protection Association’s standards for emergency response times and that its internal reports “lacked the elements necessary to accurately assess” the veracity of CFD’s claims that it was exceeding national standards.

Two follow up reports — in 2015 and 2021 — reached similar conclusions. On Thursday, Ferguson’s successor, Deborah Witzburg, reported zero progress on the same front.

The Chicago Fire Department has “neither hired staff to assist with data analy

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