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Standard Incident and Injury Reporting Manual Flashcards

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OFM SIR Manual

What are the mjor objectives for standardized reportin system for fire occurrances?

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  1. to provide for the collection of data required for understanding of the fire porblem and as mandated by the FPPA
  2. to provide information to measure the impact of fires, of fire precention initiatives and to identify emerging trands or issues in fire occurances
  3. to provide uniform datta at the municipal and provincial level for the following aims
    * to make full extent of the fire and emevergy proble known
    * to reveal facts taht requrie action
    * for the effective development and administration of codes and standards
    * for fire prevention and fire protection research
  4. to provide unifor data to national agencies for the documenting of national fire occurance
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What is an occurance and what are the three types of occurance?

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An occurrence is an incident that results in a fire department emergency response.
There are three catagories of occurrences.
1. fires & Explosions
2. No Loss Outdoor fire
3. Other emergency responses

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An SIR is devided inot 4 sections what are they

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  • Section A - all occurrences
  • Section B - Fires & Explosions
  • Section C - Strucre fires/Explosions
  • Section D - Address
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What are the fields for section A all occurrances

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  1. fire department incident #
  2. FD station
  3. OFM investications contacted
  4. aid to/from other department(s)
  5. Incident location code
  6. NFPP
  7. fire department ID code
  8. NFPP/FD
  9. Date of occurrence
  10. initial call recieved (time)
  11. Dispatch time
  12. Fire department on scene time
  13. initial unit: # of personnel
  14. total responding personnel
  15. estimated KM distance (distance frome the neares station responding
  16. alarm to FD
  17. response type
  18. rescues
  19. fire fighter injuries
  20. fire fighter fatalities
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what are the categories for otehr fire responses

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  1. overpressure rupture/explosion (no FIre)
  2. pre- fire conditions
  3. burning (controlled)
  4. flase fire call
  5. co false calls
  6. public hazard
  7. rescue
  8. medical/resuscitator
  9. other response
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What is defined as a rescue?

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a rescue is defined as:
* any perosn in danger due to their proximity to the occurreence (fire and non fire incidents)

and

  • who is unable to self evacuate

and

  • is assisted to safety by fire department personnel
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What are the fields for Section B all fires or explosions

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Secton B is completed in addition to Section A for structrual and vehicle fires/explosions and outdoor fires/explosions where there is loss, and exposure fire or a possible cause of arson vancalism or chidren playing.
fields include
1. application of agen or decision to defer
2. under control date
3. under control time
4. status on arrival
5. water (distance to source)
6. fire control (who or what extinguished the fire)
7. Property type
8. area of origin
9. ignition source/igniting equipment
10. fuel or energy associated with igniting equipment
11. object or material first ignited
12. cause (possible
13. estimated dollar loss
14. insurance estimate
15. estimated total value at risk
16. total exposures
17. exposure number
18. civilian injuris
19. civilian fatalities
20. persons rescued
21. civilian actions: fire control
22. civilian actions: evacutaion
23. Civilian actions: reason for not evaucuation
24. person directly associated with ignitions
25. other agencies contacted

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What are the different property types

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  • Group A assembly
  • Group B care and detention
  • Group C residential
  • Group D Business and personal services
  • Group E mercantile
  • Group F industrial
  • Structures/porperties not classified by OBC
  • Classified under the national farm building code
  • vehicles
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Is section B possible cause can be devided into three main catagories?

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  1. Intentional
    * suspected arson
    * riot/civil commotions
    * suspected vandalism
    * suspected yourth vandalism (ages 12-17)
  2. unintentional
    * children playing (age 11 and under)
    * vehicle collision
    * design/contructin/installation/maintenance deficiency
    * routine maintenance deficiency
    * unattended
    * improperly discarded
    * used or placed too close to combustibles
    * improper handling
    * used for purpose not intendid
    * improper storage
    * other misuse
    * mechanical failure
    * electical failure
    * other unintentional
  3. Other/Undetermined
    * rekindle
    * natural cause
    * exposure fire
    * unintentioinal cause undetermined
    * undetermined
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What does estimated dollar loss include

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The estimated dollar loss is the cost of actual damage to property and property contents, including open area losses

NOT TO BE INCLUDED in this total are revenue losses or cost involved due to business interution, loss of good will, loss of sale, production down time, vacancies or environmental contamination cleanup

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What are dollar values for extimated losses in the redential loss estimation guideline

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  • Minor Damage
    smoke, waterdamage
    $38/sqft
  • Moderate damage
    fire, smoke, water damage resultin in need for restoration to interior space and contents
    Low estimate $80/sqft
    medium estimate $100/sqft
    high estmate $120/sqft
  • Major damage
    Distruction of area requiring rebuild of interior or exterior and rplacement of contents
    Low estimate $198/sqft
    medium estimate $223/sqft
    high estimate $248/sqft
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How is a civilian injurie/fatalaitie definced

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A civilian fire injury/death is defined a person injured/killed
* as a direct result of a fire/explosion, (burns, asphyxia)
* as a result of a fire/explosion imairment (pulmonary edema, pneumonia)
* as a resuold of an injury that was caused by excaping the fire.explosion,(jumps for third floor, falls down stairwell)
* as a resuld of destruction caused by the fire/explosion (wall fals, roof collapse, projectiles hurled)

This definition includes a perosn who is know to have comminted or attempted to commit suicide by fire or explosion, and a person who is killed or injured as a result of an arson fire, whether the fire was intended to kill or injure the specific person or not

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Persons resckued age ranges

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  • children - under age 16
  • Adults - ages 16 to 64
  • seniors - aged 65+
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Section 3 all structure fires or explosions

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  1. Initial detection
  2. extent of fire
  3. smoke spread
  4. estimated number of person displaced
  5. possible business impact
  6. complex
  7. occupancy status (year round, seaonal, where ther people present at the time of the fire
  8. occupancy: occupant type (owner, renter, student renter, mixed
  9. building status -
  10. illegal building use
  11. building hight (in stories)
  12. level of origin
  13. age of structure
  14. Alarm on floor or in suite of fire origin: presence and operation
  15. alarm on floor or in suite of fire origin: failure to operate
  16. alarm on floor or in suite of fire origin: type of alarm
  17. alarm on other floor(s): presence and poeration
  18. alarm on evey level
  19. imact of alarm operations (reporte whetehr persons at risk of injury evacuated
  20. numper of persons evauced (as a resuold of operating smoke alarm)
  21. fire alarm system: presence
  22. fire alarm system: operation
  23. fire alarm system: impact of system operation
  24. sprinkler system presence
  25. sprinkler system activation
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Section D all occurance address

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  1. street or lot number
  2. street name or concession number
  3. apt. number
  4. city/town/township
  5. postal code
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