Documenting Civilian Casualties
Purpose
- To explain how to document civilian casualties in an incident report.
Video
Definition
From the NFIRS Complete Reference Guide:
- The Civilian Fire Casualty Module (NFIRS–4) is used to report injuries or deaths to civilians or other emergency personnel (e.g., police officers, non-fire department/EMS personnel) that are related to a fire incident. This module is used in conjunction with the Fire Module and, if applicable, the Structure Fire Module.
Process
1. From within a Fire Incident report navigate to the People Involved section.
2. To begin documenting civilian casualties by selecting the + Add or utilizing the dropdown to add from occupancy.
3. If adding from the occupancy a list of persons who are associated to that property will appear.
- Select on the person or persons then select Save.
4. If you selected someone from the occupancy list then you will need to select the pencil icon to bring up the person involved modal.
5. From the person involved modal select Civilian, EMS Patient.
NOTE: With Civilian, EMS Patient selected the Age and Gender now are required fields in the general information.
6. To document civilian casualties select on the Casualty tab, this will only be enabled to select for fire-related incident types 100-199.
7. Complete the Civilian Casualty section then select Save.
Notice: Severity is a required field.
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