TEXFIRS

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TEXFIRS
Texas Fire Incident Reporting System State Fire
Marshals Office
Uses and Reports
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What is a TEXFIRS Incident Report

• Written or electronic documentation
• Description of the circumstances
• Future reference
• TEXFIRS and NFIRS

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Why collect it?

• Provides a way to maintain a legal document of
  the fact that an incident occurred
• Keeps management informed
• Provides a uniform manner of evaluating local,
  state and national needs
• Documents all that you do

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Uses of TEXFIRS/NFIRS

• Mock Trial

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Local Fire Department Use

• Justification of budgets
• Resource allocation
• Staffing decisions
• Trends of problems in local areas
• Comparison with State averages
• Comparisons with similar communities

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Local Use and Presentation

• Educate your administration
• Promote support from community
• Incorporate in your funding applications

Use charts or graphs to display
Publish or distribute information
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Identifying Trends

• Multiple years comparison
• Incendiary activity
• Juvenile and the Elderly fire involvement
• Firefighter safety

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Users of NFIRS

• Local Fire Departments
• State Governments
• Private Industry
• Private Citizen
• U.S. Congress
• Federal Government Agencies
• Media
• Insurance Companies
• Law Offices
• Product Manufacturers
• Fire Organizations

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State Uses of NFIRS

• Preparing Fire Marshal's annual report
• Focus Fire Prevention programs
• Recommend or support changes to legislation based
  on incident trend analysis
• The state uses its NFIRS data to analyze fire
  activity throughout the state and recommend or
  implement prevention efforts.

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USFA uses of NFIRS

• The USFA uses NFIRS for
• Prioritizing the many fire issues in the US
• Identifying aspects of the fire problem that
  require continued monitoring
• Quantifying the costs of fire (life and property)
• Preparing congressional testimony and justifying
  budget requests
• Facilitating agency management reviews
• Providing means of measuring the impact of
  programs and activities

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Other Federal Agencies

• The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Committee (CPSC)
• National Highway Safety Committee (NHTSA)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology
  (NIST)
• Center for Disease Control (CDC)
• Armed Forces
• U.S. Commerce Department
• Center for Fire Research
• U.S. Congress

• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
• U.S. Department of Treasury
• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)
• Library of Congress
• U.S. Department of Justice
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)

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Consumer Product Safety Commission

• Analyzed the fire risk associated with portable
  space heaters, kerosene space heaters, wood
  stoves, metal chimneys, upholstered furniture,
  cigarettes, and sleepwear among other products
• Child-resistant safety standard for cigarette
  lighters
• Estimated between 80 105 deaths annually among
  children under the age of 5 would be prevented
• National Smoke Detector Project
• Research on potential product fire hazards and to
  identify the need for product recalls or product
  repairs
• The fields equipment involved in and form of
  heat of ignition

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The Center for Fire Research

• NFIRS data is used to develop fire models and to
  conduct analysis of fire risk.
• Helped to define the U.S. Fire problem
• America Burning Revisited

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Non-profit Fire-Related Organizations

• IAFC, IAFF
• NFIRS data can be used to generalize about the
  types of fires that present the greatest risk to
  firefighters and the type of injuries firefighter
  most often sustain
• Investigate whether particular pieces of gear are
  associated with fire fighter injuries
• NASFM
• Investigated the effect of Californias fabric
  flammability standards
• NFPA
• Often used as the basis for articles in the Fire
  Journal

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Public Fire Educators

• Justify funding of programs for dealing with
  community fire problems as they are identified.
• NFIRS is the largest data set in the world!!

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TEXFIRS Reporting

• All incident reporting
• TEXFIRS/NFIRS
• Monthly reporting
• Paper, vendor software, federal software
• Dont need federal software account to report
• Email file receipt confirmation
• FD Reporting Status
• TEXFIRS Website

www.tdi.state.tx.us/fire
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TEXFIRS Website

• Fires in Texas annual report
• Fire Department FDID list
• Incident count by month
• Reporting Guidelines
• Software
• Training
• Self Study Course
• Handbooks/forms
• Building Valuation
• Census Tracts

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Valid Incidents

• Processing data files
• Error reports
• Vendor issues
• USFA Updates

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TEXFIRS/NFIRS Reports

• Data Summary Report
• State Request
• Need based Report
• USFA Request
• Web Based Reporting Tool
• Request Summary Reports

www.tdi.state.tx.us/fire/fmtexfir.html
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USFA Web-Based Reporting Tool

• NFIRS 5.0 Web-based Summary Output Reports Tool
  enables users to obtain summaries and statistical
  calculations on the data saved to the National
  Database.
• Guest Account

www.nfirs.fema.gov/webtools/
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Web-Based Tools
www.nfirs.fema.gov/webtools/
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Summary Output Reporting Tool
Click on Summary Output Reports Tool
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User Account Login
Enter Your user account Enter TX for
state Enter Your password
Or, use Guest account
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Choosing a Report
Choose a Report
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USFA Summary Reports

• Summary by Incident Type Data Quality
• Detailed Selected Statistics Fires Under
  Investigation
• Fire Report By FDID Fire Service Casualties
• Monthly Incident Counts Civilian Casualties
• Incident Counts Tally
• Incidents By Time Series Incident Listing
• Mutual Aid Incidents FDID Incident Type Summary
• Data Inventory By FDID Unresolved Fire
  Incidents
• Fire Department Information Structure Fire
  Causes
• Structure Fires by Property Use Residential Str
  Fire Causes
• Mutual Aid Given Unmatched Depts

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Completed Reports
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Printing and Saving your Report
Printing or Saving PDF file
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Summary By Incident Type Report

• Incident frequency summarized by Incident Type
• The report includes of the total frequency for
  each Incident Type code category.
• Summary information of Exposure incidents, Mutual
  Aid Given codes, casualties, and the total dollar
  loss for fire incidents.
• Note No Activity incidents (N status) are not
  included in any frequency count.

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SAMPLE REPORT SummarybyIncidentType
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Fire Report by FDID

• The Fire Report By FDID generates summary
  information of fires, by Fire Department.
• Within each FDID, Fire Type is summarized at 3
  levels
• Building Fires,
• Vehicle Fires, and
• Other Fires.

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Web-Based Reporting Tool Logout
Log Out
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What We Need to Know

• Input higher quality data
• The quality of information generated by NFIRS is
  only as good as the data entered at the fire
  house level
• Correctly and thoroughly input data
• Include property value and loss estimates
• Grants, training, NFA courses are depending on
  NFIRS data in the system
• Be aware, millions of dollars are targeted at
  problems identified through NFIRS

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Acknowledgement

• There is a long way to go toward making even
  better use of NFIRS. But we have a system in
  place that works well.
• Everyone associated with NFIRS at the local,
  state and national levels should feel proud of
  the important contribution they have made.
• NFIRS will continue to guide fire protection in
  the U.S.

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Document All That You Do

• Time and memory are true artists they remold
  reality nearer to the heart's desire.
• John Dewey

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Phone [phone] FAX (512)
305-7910www.tdi.state.tx.us
www.nfirs.fema.gov
TEXFIRS

• Texas Department of Insurance
• State Fire Marshals Office
• P.O. Box 149221, MC 108-FM
• Austin, Texas 78714-9221