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NFIRS 5.0 Transaction: ‘Structure Fire’

Description: ‘Provides details specific to a Structure Fire Incident’

Class: Used for incident transactions

Module: Structure Fire

NFIRS References

How to document confined structure fires using the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS). It also addresses how to edit an NFIRS report if a person initially injured in a confined fire later succumbed to his or her injuries as a result of the fire. - (NFIRSgram) Need something else? Here is the complete list of all NFIRS modules and subsequent NFIRS transactions, plus a list of all NFIRS elements.

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Transaction Elements:

The ‘Structure Fire’ transaction contains the following elements in order.

Key Elements:

These elements are part of the ‘Structure Fire’ transaction, as they are part of every transaction, since they form the record key; they uniquely identify the incident from other incidents.

Transaction Specific Elements:

These elements are part of the specific information carried by the ‘Structure Fire’ transaction. They form the main payload of this transaction.

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Transaction Blocks:

These blocks are collections of elements carried by the ‘Structure Fire’ 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)
I1	Structure Type
I2	Building Status
I3	Building Height: Stories Above Grade — Building Height: Stories Below Grade
I4	Building Length — Building Width — Total Square Feet
J1	Fire Origin (Story #)
J2	Fire Spread
J3	Number of Stories with Damage: Minor — Number of Stories with Damage: Significant — Number of Stories with Damage: Heavy — Number of Stories with Damage: Extreme
K	No Flame Spread or Same As First or Unknown
K1	Item Contributing To Spread
K2	Type Of Material Contributing To Spread
L1	Detector Presence
L2	Detector Type
L3	Detector Power
L4	Detector Operation
L5	Detector Effectiveness
L6	Detector Failure Reason
M1	Automatic Extinguishment System (AES) Presence
M2	Automatic Extinguishment System (AES) Type
M3	Automatic Extinguishment System (AES) Operation
M4	Number of Sprinklers Operating
M5	Automatic Extinguishment System (AES) Failure Reason

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Structure Fire - NFIRS