Of the 1,084 service calls the Statesboro Fire Department answered in 2016, more than 900 calls, or a little over 83 percent, were emergency responses, but fire alarm malfunctions made up a majority of the reported emergencies. Meanwhile, 178 calls, or more than 16 percent of the overall total, were nonemergency calls, with firefighters doing things such as educating the public about fire safety and installing smoke alarms. Delivering an annual report recently, Fire Chief Timothy Grams told City Council he would like to see the proportion of nonemergency calls increase to about 25 percent of the total.