Module 'Civilian Fire Casualty' - NFIRS

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NFIRS 5.0 Module ‘Civilian Fire Casualty’

Description: Provides report data for injuries and/or fatalities to civilians (or responder not in the Fire Service.) Use the ‘EMS Patient Module’ if fire was not the cause.

This module is NOT optional it is NOT ‘department use’; meaning it’s contents are used by FEMA NFIRS reports.

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Civilian Fire Casualty Transactions:

Civilian Fire Casualty - ‘Provides details of a civilian casualty’- Mandatory, minimum 1 to 100000

Civilian Fire Casualty Blocks:

These blocks are collections of elements carried by the ‘Civilian Fire Casualty’ transaction.

Block	Elements
A	Fire Department ID — Fire Department State — Incident (Alarm) Date — Incident Number (Identifier) — Exposure Number — Record Type/Transaction Code — Transaction Type (Add, Update, Delete)
C	Civilian Fire Casualty Sequence Number
B	First Name — Middle Initial — Last Name — Name Suffix — Gender
D	Person Age
E1	Race
E2	Ethnicity
F	Affiliation
G	Injury Date Time
H	Severity
I	Cause of Injury
J	Human Factors
K	Contributing Factors
L	Activity when Injured
M1	Location at Time of Incident
M2	General Location at Time of Injury
M3	Story at Start of Incident
M4	Story when Injury Occurred
M5	Specific Location at Time of Incident
N	Primary Apparent Symptom
O	Primary Part Of Body Injured
P	Disposition

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