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NFIRS

Exporting NFIRS incidents from eNFIRS for data mining, review or backup.
If you wish to get started with eNFIRS, here are some good steps to take:
NFIRS WebTools is becoming eNFIRS
Overview:  NFIRS compliant is when your department is up to date with incidents reported to NFIRS. Learn about NERIS the National Emergency Response Information System (NERIS). Answer your questions, see the NERIS specification, get email updates, and help make your department's transition painless with Responserack. NERIS An NFIRS compliant fire department is defined as one having its incident reports entered into NFIRS. Typically there is an accepted lag (e.
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.