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Community Assessment Risk/Response Evaluation System:
FireCARES
May 2016Slide3
Protect lives, property, and the environment through preparedness, prevention, public education
,
and
emergency response with an emphasis on quality services, efficiency, effectiveness, and safety.Fire Department Core ValuesSlide4
Forcing decisions to cut fire department resources faster than we can evaluate their impact
Cuts can leave a community without sufficient resources to respond
safely
and effectivelyChallenges Are Driving Dangerous DecisionsSlide5
If
fire department resources
(both mobile and personnel) are deployed to match the risk levels inherent to hazards in the community, it has been scientifically demonstrated that the community will be far less vulnerable to negative outcomes in…firefighter injury and death civilian injury and death property loss Matching Resources to RiskSlide6
Following a community hazard/risk assessment, Leaders must prepare a plan for
timely
and sufficient coverage of all hazards and the adverse risk events that occur….Standard of Response Coverage. (Standards of Cover)Matching Resources to RiskSlide7
Resource Availability/Reliability is the degree to which the resources are ready and available to respond.
Department Capability
is the ability of the resources deployed to
manage an incident.Operational Effectiveness is the product of availability and capability. It is the outcome achieved by the deployed resources or a measure of the ability to match resources deployed to the risk level to which they are responding.Fire Department PerformanceSlide8
When evaluating current capability or measuring impact of a change in the level of resources deployed, department leaders (and community officials) must decide:
What resources to commit to
risk management
(prevention/pre-planning/preparation); What resources to commit to response/mitigationThe acceptable level of risk.Fire Service Leaders Faced with DecisionsSlide9
Decisions must be based on understanding of relationship between community hazards and associated
risk
,
basic emergency response infrastructure, including fire department response capability outcomes of emergency incidents Fire Service Leaders Faced with DecisionsSlide10
If
fire department resources
(both mobile and personnel) are deployed to match the risk levels inherent to hazards in the community, it has been scientifically demonstrated that the community will be far less vulnerable to negative outcomes in…firefighter injury and death civilian injury and death property loss Matching Resources to RiskSlide11
FireCARES
=
Community Assessment/ Response Evaluation System
Same Study Team as NIST StudiesDHS/AFG GrantDOD – ROGUE project FireCARESSlide12
GIS-based tool is being constructed of multiple layers of
“Big Data”
Real estate data
Public health dataCensus dataBuilding foot printsHAZUS dataAnd multiple other GIS layers including 11+ years of structure fire data
FireCARESSlide13
High-Hazard Occupancies
– High-rise buildings, hospitals, schools, nursing homes, explosive plants, refineries, public assembly structures, and other high life hazard or large fire potential occupancies.
Medium-Hazard Occupancies
– Apartments, offices, mercantile and industrial occupancies that may require extensive use of fire fighting forces.Low-Hazard Occupancies – One-, two- or three-family dwellings and scattered small business and industrial occupancies.FireCARESSlide14
Data layers are compiled to build the ‘
risk profile
’
or the community risk assessment for Fire departmentsIncludes national fire station layerOther local response related data can be added to the system hydrant locations inspection reports FireCARESSlide15
National Fire Operations Reporting System
Connections: Bringing It All TogetherSlide16
www.firecares.org
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Introducingthe
National
Fire Operations
Reporting SystemIntelligent Fire DataReducing Injury, Death, and DamageSlide19
N-FORS Funding
2013 - 2015Slide20
VISION TO REALITY
Intelligent Fire Data
Reducing Injury, Death, and
DamageSlide21
Project Goals
Assure Adequate Fire Resources
Optimize Fire Operations
Reduce Firefighter Injury and Death
Minimize Civilian Injury and Death
Minimize Property LossSlide22
N-FORS Stakeholder Group
Assistance
to Firefighters Grant
ProgramCalifornia Fire Chiefs AssociationCommission on Fire Accreditation InternationalEmergency Performance Inc.
United States Fire AdministrationFire Cancer Support NetworkFire Application IndustryInternational Academy of Emergency DispatchInternational Association of Arson Investigators
International Association of Fire ChiefsInternational Association of Fire Fighters
International City/County Management Association
International Fire Service Training Association
ISO
Local Fire Application Users
National Association of State Fire Marshals
National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
National Fire Data
Center (NFIRS)
National Fire Protection Association
National Institute of Standards and Technology
National League of Cities
NEMSIS Technical Assistance
Center
National Volunteer Fire
Councill
Pro Board
The Urban Institute
Worchester Polytechnic InstituteSlide23
N-FORS Approach
NFIRS
Documents the Incident of FireN-FORS Documents the same PLUS the Operations Required to Manage ItSlide24
N-FORS Application
Modules (Data Segments)
Configuration
Event Operations
Fire, Rescue, Investigations, HazMat, EMS, etc…Health, Wellness, & OutcomeFF Exposure
tracking- Career DiaryReports Available ImmediatelySlide25
Second Nature
Usability
Event Operations Centric
Intuitive
Minimal ClicksAuto-SaveNormal Work Flow (Decision Trees)Business LogicSlide26
More Than What You See
Modern IT and Data Systems
Works on Multiple Devices
CAD data capture/ extraction
Reduce the burden of data entryConnectivity The CloudLeverages Existing DataSlide27
N-FORS Specifications
Web-Based (Hosted NFPA)
Minimal Data Entry from Field
CAD Data Uploads
CAD Policy for data capture = Operations Tasks
Data Entry Feedback Real-Time Analysis = Resource StatusSlide28
Health and Wellness Report
Civilian
Injury, Exposure, Death
Associated with IncidentFirefighterNear MissInjury, Exposure, DeathAny On the Job EventSlide29
Federal StatutesThe reporting of fire data is voluntary and not mandated.Local
Fire Department participation is based on one of the two following requirements:
An individual state’s requirement to collect and submit NFIRS data
Receipt of funds from the FEMA Assistance to Fire Firefighter Grant ProgramSlide30
State Statutes/Regulations
States
State
participation in NFIRS is voluntary.17 – NFIRS required 4 – questionable whether NFORS could be implemented29 – Relatively clear path for NFORS implementation
Political advocacy underway to assure pathway for NFORS use. Slide31
What’s Next?
Next Steps
Transition project to new home at NFPA
Complete programming and module testing for implementationAssure data exchange capability with other data systemsFireCARESCancer Registry YFIRES (Juvenile Fire Setters)
Live Data Feeds (Utility, taxes, parcels)