Definition: Factors that contributed to the growth, spread, or suppression of the fire.This is used to report incident information that directly impacted the ignition, spread of fire or smoke, incident complexity, or presence of hazardous conditions.
Purpose: Fire suppression factors provide essential guides for planning strategic and tactical procedures for future incidents, as well as for identifying fire training and equipment needs.
Entry: Enter the three-digit code and description for up to three fire suppression factors or conditions that constituted a significant fire suppression problem or affected how the fire was managed. If no conditions or factors affected fire suppression efforts, check or mark the None box.
Relational Edit Rules for ‘Fire Suppression Factors’
NFIRS 5.0 relational edit validation rules are provided to ensure NFIRS data is consistent and correct for the fire/reporting concepts that are being modeled. Relational edits determine relationships between multiple fields / elements. These are the rules for ‘Fire Suppression Factors’.
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NFIRS Coding
Here are the NFIRS codes for the ‘Fire Suppression Factors’ element, including any “other” values in case none of the preselected choices match:
Common Examples of Fire Suppression Factors
More commonly used values for Fire Suppression Factors…
Coded Field - The coded field relating to an entry in the code table. Most coded fields allow for Plus+ One codes. For these fields the expected length of the coded entry is depicted as (National length OR Plus+ One length). Only fields with this notation in the expected length column allow for Plus+ One definitions. If the user has not provided information, an empty field should be transmitted.
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