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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: Heat from a fire did excessive melting of aluminum sliding on an adjacent house. The adjacent house sustained major dollar loss. Is this an exposure? And if so, what is the incident type? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: The following incident took place in a department store. An individual set a fire to a paper towel and held it up to a sprinkler head. The sprinkler activated transmitting an alarm and bringing the fire department. Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: A fire department is notified six weeks after the fact of the following case. It appears that an elderly woman was cooking. Her clothes catch fire and she is burned. A male companion comes to visit, finds her on the floor, badly burned, and takes her to the hospital. She is then transferred to the burn center where she died. There was no response by fire department, police, or EMS. Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: I got an error because I had both Mobile Property Type and Equipment Involved in Ignition for the same incident. The incident involved a car running into an air conditioner. Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: What incident type would be used for a small single bush that burned outside, and which modules need to be completed? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: Why can mobile property type and Equipment Involved in Ignition not both be reported for the same incident? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: On the Fire Module, how would a fire be coded in section "E" that results from material being placed or stored too close to the heat source. Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: In the Arson Module, Block E, “Suspected Motivation Factors”, code 54(burglary) is not listed in the 5.0 Reference Guide. Is code 54 a valid code? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: On a vehicle fire, is the owner listed on the Basic Module, Block K2, the owner of the property or the owner of the vehicle? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: How are the mutual aids given and/or received tracked if the FDID number or Incident Type is not a required field for the department receiving the mutual aid? Shouldn't it be required that the department receiving the mutual aid get the FDID number and Incident number of the department giving them the aid? Is the incident counted twice? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: On an airplane fire incident, is the owner information supposed to reflect the owner of the vehicle (airplane) or the property where the airplane sits? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: Can hazardous materials incident related civilian casualties be entered in Block H1 of the Basic Module? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: In the Basic Module, Block H1, Casualties, it is not clear who to include in the total casualty count. Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: When coding a structure fire in an apartment building, do you enter the square footage, Block I4, for just the apartment involved in the fire or for the entire building (two story building). Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: How do you code a situation where it is unknown if there is an automatic extinguishing system (Structure Fire Module, Block M1)? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: In the Structure Fire Module, Block M1, "Presence of Automatic Extinguishing Systems", is there a selection for "Undetermined"? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: Is there any check or correlation between NFIRS data on a civilian fire casualty and hospital mortality data with regard to fire deaths? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: If there is a non-fatal civilian fire casualty and that person dies subsequent to leaving the scene, what is the criteria for reporting this casualty as a death? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: Incident Type 240 (No Fire, Explosion) will not accept a casualty report. The casualty report said the civilian suffered thermal burns due to the gas leak explosion. Do we not want to track this type of injury or is this incident type wrong? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: In the Fire Service Casualty Module, Block K1, how should multiple injuries to a firefighter be reported? Which injury is the one to track relative to equipment failure? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: On the EMS Module, Initial Level of Provider (L1), is it the intent to report fire department personnel only or private ambulance services as well? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: A firefighter is injured at the scene, and is transported by mutual aid EMS unit. In NFIRS-6, section N, Disposition, would FD transport to ECF (1)" or "non-FD transport (2)" be used? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: Can a hazardous materials incident be coded where the chemical listed is unknown? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: If an incident involved the fire department giving aid to a private ambulance service or police department, should that be reported as “Aid Given” in block D of the Basic Module? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: The only fire apparatus from Fire Department A is responding to an incident when it is involved in an accident. Fire Department B is then dispatched to the incident Fire Department A was originally responding to and also sends a fire apparatus to the scene of the accident. How would Fire Department A code their response? How would Fire Department B code their response? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: If the FDID number of the receiving fire department on a "Aid Given" response is not a required field, why is a warning error created if it is left blank? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: On the Structure Fire Module, Building Height (I3), should mechanical or enclosed attic spaces be counted as a separate story or as a part of the highest story? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: If a fire occurs and there is heat or smoke damage to an exposed property, should that be reported using an exposure report? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: A vehicle catches fire on a parking ramp. Two other vehicles catch fire from the first vehicle. Are these two vehicles considered an exposure fire or, as is in the Version 5.0 manual, should you "treat similar items in a group as a single exposure", such as a fleet of cars?. Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: Can Incident Type 300 be used for an incident where an EMS module will be used also? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: The Student Manual (page SM 1-3) states that only the Basic Module (NFIRS 1) needs be completed for small vegetation fires, but the Data Entry Tool requires the Fire Module for vegetation fires. Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: If a single hazardous materials incident involves more than one property, how do you report the address/location of each property? Would each of the properties be treated as exposures? For example, gasoline in ground water seeps into the basement of three homes. Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: If a firefighter is injured on the job but not at an incident, e.g. at a training exercise, would the total injuries shown under Fire Service Casualty in Basic Module, Block H1, include this injury? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: Should the firefighter casualty count on the Basic Module, block H1, include only firefighters injured during fires? The definition in handbook seems to imply that only casualties associated with fires are reported. Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: Are there expanded definitions for the following Wildland Actions Taken: “contain fire (14)”, “confine fire (15)”, “control fire (16)”. Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: A fire department responds to a motor vehicle accident with reported injuries. Upon arrival, department personel evaluate each victim and find no injuries. How would the incident type and action taken be coded? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: A fire department responds to a call for power lines down and on arrival finds the wires are telephone or cable wires. What is the Incident Type? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: If specialized fire apparatus such as a hazardous materials vehicle or a fire investigation support unit is purchased on a regional basis, but stored and staffed by a local fire department within that region, how does the department responding with the specialized unit report the incident type and action? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: A fire department sets up a temporary substation in a remote area because the area is cut off by a rockslide on the main road. It is staffed with apparatus on a full time basis for two months. Should this be a single incident? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: Should incident reports be generated for a fire department training exercise? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: If an incident does not have an arrival time or a controlled time, what should be reported? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 12-08-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: If a fire department is cancelled while en-route to an incident (Incident type 611), does the entire Basic Module have to be completed? Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 09-20-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: In cases where one fire department does the reporting for their own department plus another department, is it permissible to list all incidents in one file? Each incident would reflect the appropriate FDID number. Type of question: Coding |
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Date of Question: 07-05-2001 - SEE ANSWER - Question: We have just loaded a upgrade of NFIRS 5.0 from Sunpro, version 3.26.43. All calls that were previously marked as code 320, have been cleared and now need a new code inserted to make the report complete. 1. Does this mean I need to resend my first qtr stats to the State? What was the meaning of the 320 code? It is no longer a possibility to select. Can you provide any clairifictaion on this? Type of question: Coding |
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