Fire Data Mapping and Analysis

Fire departments gather a plethora of data fields for each emergency management incident.  These incidents could be related to fire or medical emergencies, or both. The data collection is part of the legal requirement for documenting emergency incidents. Victims, insurance companies, lawyers and many other agencies require this data for their use.

Apart from legal requirements this data has a wealth of information hidden that can help reduce fire incidents and empower firefighting agencies with knowledge on how to improve their performance and tackle emergency incidents better.  Proper analysis of types of fires and medical emergencies, and their causes, can help save many lives.

But are fire departments successful in tapping into their CAD and RMS data?  Are the fire departments able to answer questions like:

• How many fires took place on Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays?
• Which hour of the day is most susceptible to fire hazards?
• What is the average time of the first responder to get to the scene?

FIRESolv was developed keeping these requirements in mind.   FIRESolv looks into a department’s CAD, RMS and EMS data and presents a multitude of reports and statistics commonly used to answer the type of questions above.  Furthermore, FIRESolv can build optimized service areas and call centers (or call boxes) for fire departments based on both historical performance and street network coverage.  These analyses are presented as data tables or as maps to get a visual representation of the data.  Statistical techniques like regression analysis, standard deviation, chi square-tests, and others are used to display results in easy-to-read formats.  FIRESolv has many built-in GIS and graphical techniques for analysis of temporal and spatial data. By using FIRESolv fire departments can make their data collection effort more meaningful, and increase their ability to serve their jurisdictions more efficiently.

FIRESolv come as two separate applications.  FIRESolv Plan and FIRESolv Net.  Both application can also interface and exchange data from the other

FIRESolv Net

One of the most basic types of analysis that fire department personnel perform is to determine whether they are able to respond in a timely fashion to incidents. This question leads to several different areas of mapping related to service. FIRESolv Net works with ESRI’s ArcGIS ArcView 8.3 to calculate and determine answers to station location and call box area setups.  In combination with current digital maps of streets, boundaries, and station and equipment locations, it is able to provide a variety of maps and tables that enable the fire department planner to easily and quickly calculate outputs with mathematical precision. Excel tables display and export run order information. This data can than provide department staff and government officials the accurate information they need when deciding whether to realign staff and equipment locations, change hours of operation, or determine where to spend precious capital improvement dollars on new stations or equipment.

FIRESolv Plan

This program was developed to provide fire department analysts with a geographic way of examining the distribution of records (RMS) and calls (Computer Aided Dispatch - CAD) data within their jurisdiction, and through the use of various report tools and map displays, provide needed intelligence to department management and planners. Through the use of import tools, incident data is quickly and easily added to a database, that can then be queried with simple forms-based tools. The output of these queries can then be provided to users as Crystal Reports products (tabular reports, pie charts, graphs). At this point, an analyst can then simply push a button to switch to a map interface to see the distribution of any data selected for display, against a backdrop of digital GIS (geographic information system) map files for their jurisdiction.

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