NFIRS Training

National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) Program Management (R493)
The NFIRS Program Management course enables participants to promote, support, and manage NFIRS data collection successfully. Course content includes collection, processing, analysis, and presentation of useful, timely, and accurate information about fire department activities. The course is sponsored jointly by USFA/NFA and the National Fire Information Council (NFIC). This course is offered twice yearly.

NFIRS 5.0 Self-Study (Q494)
Serving as an introduction to NFIRS 5.0, this self-study course provides an overview of the data collection system, its modules and data conversion issues. Coding scenario exercises are also included.

National Fire Incident Reporting System - Introduction to NFIRS 5.0 (W497)
This 2-day Direct Delivery course teaches students how to use standardized forms to achieve uniformity in their incident and activity reporting. This training program is designed specifically to support local fire service organizations, and will assist them in providing data both to their management and to decisionmakers, as well as to their State uniform fire reporting system.

National Fire Incident Reporting System - Introduction to NFIRS 5.0 (F497)
This 2-day State Weekend course teaches students how to use standardized forms to achieve uniformity in their incident and activity reporting. This training program is designed specifically to support local fire service organizations, and will assist them in providing data both to their management and to decisionmakers, as well as to their State uniform fire reporting system.

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  • PublicationsNFIRS 5.0 Program Manager Toolkit
    This interactive CD-ROM provides resources for Program Managers to implement, manage and market NFIRS 5.0.
  • PublicationsGeographic Information System (GIS) Tutorial
    This interactive CD-ROM is designed to teach the fundamental concepts of GIS technology by demonstrating its use with NFIRS data and providing basic hands-on use of desktop GIS for displaying spatial information. Through this tutorial you will learn the basic components required for a GIS system and several techniques for displaying and querying spatial data.