Completing an Incident Report - Size Up

Completing an Incident Report - Size Up

Purpose

  1. This article will guide you through the Size-up section of an Incident Report.

Related Articles

  1. Completing an Incident Report - Response 
  2. Completing an Incident Report - People Involved
  3. Completing an Incident Report - Operations
  4. Completing an Incident Report - Information 
  5. Completing an Incident Report - Wrap Up
  6. Completing an Incident Report - Completing and Authorizing
  7. Completing an Incident Report - Printing Reports
  8. Documenting Civilian Casualt
The First Due incident report workflow is designed to follow a typical incident: 
  1. Response (unit times, incident type)
  2. Size-up (scene details, persons involved)
  3. Operations (actions taken) 
  4. Information (property, vehicle, and equipment involved)
  5. Wrap up (narratives).
Items within an Incident Report that are annotated with an (*) are mandatory items. These MUST be completed to finalize the Incident Report.

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Directions

  1. Navigate to Incident Documentation > Incident List.





  2. Once you have completed the Response section of an incident, select the Size-up section from the menu of the left side of the Incident report.






  3. The Size-up section contains three areas:

    1. (A) Scene
    2. (B) Weather
    3. (C) People Involved







  4. The Scene section contains the following fields.

    1. (A) Property Use where incident occurred - NFIRS driven
    2. (B) Additional Property Use(s) at Location - NFIRS driven.
    3. (C) COVID-19 was a factor in this incident - Allows users to track if COVID was a factor in the incident
    4. (D) HazMat Released - NFIRS driven.  Allows users to track if Hazardous Materials were involved.  If a spill of greater than 55 gallons the NFIRS Haz Mat module will be enabled
    5. (E) A selector switch to track High Hazard IBC Classification -  Used if the Occupancy maintains significant storage of Detonation, Deflagration, Accelerated Burning, Combustion, Physical or Health Hazards or the facility is a Fabrication/Research Facility utilizing such materials.






  5. The Weather section allows you to record:

    1. (A) Temperature
    2. (B) Wind Speed
    3. (C) Wind Direction
    4. (D) Humidity
    5. (E) Weather Type








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