NFIRS

NFIRS WebTools is becoming eNFIRS

Overview:  NFIRS compliant is when your department is up to date with incidents reported to NFIRS. National Fire Incident Reporting System. Reporting by Responserack Fire Department NFIRS RMS. An NFIRS compliant fire department is defined as one having its incident reports entered into NFIRS. Typically there is an accepted lag (e.g. up to date by the middle of the next month, or up to date for that quarter … as defined by your state or territory.

NFIRS WebTools is becoming eNFIRS

Responserack is making progress in a number of areas. Much of it is behind the scenes work; infrastructure, automation, notifications and other such plumbing.

Paper reports have their downsides also. At two in the morning, handwritting is increasingly illegible, firefighters make mistakes on who was in attendance or details of the incident, and those paper reports often go under reviewed.

NFIRS special studies allow effective gathering of data from the tens of thousands of fire departments, and hundreds of thousands of calls. Most recently, that has focused on COVID-19, and (to date) over 4 thousand departments have submit data on almost 300 thousand incidents:

Responserack submit its first production NFIRS file for a mountain fire department. There were no problems with the submission, however one repeated warning occured.

Responserack has become an active vendor for NFIRS.

After the incident is terminated (and units have cleared the scene) the administrative portion of the work begins. Reporting incidents to state databases allows response information to be aggregated at the state and federal level, providing critical insights for public safety and resource management.