The Peoria Fire Department responded to the fire at Peoria Women’s Care Center around 2:40 a.m. on Monday and said most of the fire was contained in the front room, but damage was done to the entire building. 

Fire investigators believe the fire was intentionally set but under control by 3 a.m., a local news station reported. No one was injured in the fire. The center’s contents, including diapers and baby supplies, were lost to the fire, and the center needs material assistance. 

“If called beyond prayer, we need financial assistance in rebuilding,” the center’s founder and vice president of its board of directors, Christine Dennis, said in an interview with Peoria-based diocesan newspaper The Catholic Post. “And we have five hundred women on our client roster whose babies are due in the coming months.”

Women’s Care Center is a pro-life chain founded in 1984 and now has thirty-three centers across twelve states. Its goal is to help pregnant women choose life for their babies, have healthy pregnancies and become self-sufficient.

The Women’s Care Center in Peoria serves around thirteen women per day, performs one thousand ultrasounds annually and saved 596 babies from abortion last year, according to its website. The center in Peoria was established in 2013.