As soon as you import your NFIRS 5 SFM transaction files NFIRS 5 Alive gives you access to more than 7,200 report. But that's not all. Four specialized "analyzers" are also available.

   1.) Time Analyzer
   2.) Staff Analyzer
   3.) Aid Analyzer
   4.) GIS Analyzer

Here's a look at each of these powerful tools.

Aid Analyzer

The Aid Analyzer goes to work in two areas, inter-department aid and aid between fire stations within the fire department. Inter-department aid statistics are compiled and presented in text form for copying into reports. Three reports are produced:

• Aid Activity by Incident Type Animated by Hour
• Aid Activity by Incident Type Animated by Day of Week
• Aid Activity Animated by Month

Inter-station aid statistics are then compiled and presented in text form for copying into reports. Three reports are produced:

• Station Aid (by Station) Given & Received Animated by Hour
• Station Aid (by Station) Given & Received Animated by Day of Week
• Station Aid (by Station) Given & Received Animated by Month

This report illustrates the flow of resources into and out of different areas of the city as measured over time.

 

GIS Analyzer

The GIS Analyzer connects you to GIS resources available on the Internet. The analyzer begins with geocoding addresses. If your fire department geocodes incidents in CAD data you can simply import those geocodes and skip this step. Otherwise, the GIS Analyzer will connect you to a variety of web-based geocoding services that will assign a geocode to the addresses in the Incidents, Apparatus and Risks modules.

In practice, it seems only about 50% of fire department responses are to unique addresses. So if you have 10,000 incidents only about 5,000 geocodes will be necessary to geocode a solid majority of your addresses.

After addresses are geocoded the GIS Analyzer can be used to set-up a grid of Dynamically Defined Districts (D3 districts). This system will track performance in "nodes" giving you a complete picture of performance broken down into hundreds of D3 districts.

Once the geocodes and D3 districts are established the GIS Analyzer will organize your data into KML exports. These geographic exports are read by a web-based GIS application that plots your incidents on their maps. The results are not just points on a map, but a powerful animated display of your performance in a very detailed GIS browser.

There's a lot more to tell about the GIS Analyzer. See our GIS Connections page for more information.

Time Analyzer

The Time Analyzer specializes in both text and graphic fractiles. Simply select from several options and your report is constructed to your specifications. Time analyzer specialties include:

• Fractile breakdowns in text for any selection of incident or apparatus records
• Fractile graphs
• Animated fractile graphs (by hour, day of week, month)
• Compliance graphs
• Animated compliance graphs (by hour, by day of week, by month)
• All fractiles & compliance graphs also breakdown by incident type, time and shift
• Response Time Deployment Compliance
• EMS BLS/ALS Compliance
• EMS Transport Compliance (Arrival of Transport Vehicle)
• Simultaneous Analysis

For more information on the Time Analyzer see our Fractiles page.

 

Staff Analyzer

Staffing requirements revolve around three variables, 1.) the number of incidents, 2.) the number of responders per incident and 3.) simultaneous incidents (incident overlap).

The Staff Analyzer begins with three simultaneous incident reports:

• Number of Incidents by Simultaneous Incident Count
• Cumulative Percentage by Simultaneous Incident Count
• Median First Due Minutes by Simultaneous Incident Count

The Staff Analyzer then moves to study the number of responders with four reports:

• Number of Incidents by the Number of Responders
• Number of Incidents by Total Number of Responders (Incident Overlap)
• Cumulative Percentage by the Number of Responders
• Cumulative Percentage by Total Number of Responders (Incident Overlap)

Then the Staff Analyzer combines all of the above reports into a single report that compares the number of responders by incident to the total number of responders required (because of incident overlap). This report is animated by time to produce three animated versions:

• Incidents by Responders & Total Number of Responders Animated by Hour
• Incidents by Responders & Total Number of Responders Animated by Day of Week
• Incidents by Responders & Total Number of Responders Animated by Month

This report measures staffing demand over time by combining incident quantity, responder quantity and incident overlap into an animated model.

 

Aid Analyzer

The Aid Analyzer goes to work in two areas, inter-department aid and aid between fire stations within the fire department. Inter-department aid statistics are compiled and presented in text form for copying into reports. Three reports are produced:

• Aid Activity by Incident Type Animated by Hour
• Aid Activity by Incident Type Animated by Day of Week
• Aid Activity Animated by Month

Inter-station aid statistics are then compiled and presented in text form for copying into reports. Three reports are produced:

• Station Aid (by Station) Given & Received Animated by Hour
• Station Aid (by Station) Given & Received Animated by Day of Week
• Station Aid (by Station) Given & Received Animated by Month

This report illustrates the flow of resources into and out of different areas of the city as measured over time.

 

GIS Analyzer

The GIS Analyzer connects you to GIS resources available on the Internet. The analyzer begins with geocoding addresses. If your fire department geocodes incidents in CAD data you can simply import those geocodes and skip this step. Otherwise, the GIS Analyzer will connect you to a variety of web-based geocoding services that will assign a geocode to the addresses in the Incidents, Apparatus and Risks modules.

In practice, it seems only about 50% of fire department responses are to unique addresses. So if you have 10,000 incidents only about 5,000 geocodes will be necessary to geocode a solid majority of your addresses.

After addresses are geocoded the GIS Analyzer can be used to set-up a grid of Dynamically Defined Districts (D3 districts). This system will track performance in "nodes" giving you a complete picture of performance broken down into hundreds of D3 districts.

Once the geocodes and D3 districts are established the GIS Analyzer will organize your data into KML exports. These geographic exports are read by a web-based GIS application that plots your incidents on their maps. The results are not just points on a map, but a powerful animated display of your performance in a very detailed GIS browser.

There's a lot more to tell about the GIS Analyzer. See our GIS Connections page for more information.