NFIRS 5.0 Element: ‘Fire Service Injuries’
Définition : The number of fire service personnel injured as a result of an incident.
Purpose : This information can be correlated with other data to help understand how to reduce future fire injuries and deaths. Furthermore, this information can be used to reduce firefighter injuries and deaths through better equipment, training, and physical conditioning.

Entry : Enter the number of fire service personnel from your department who were injured (but did not die) in connection with this incident regardless of incident type. A Fire Service Casualty Module must be completed for each individual counted here.
Include those people injured while responding to or returning from the incident. If the injury occurred on fire department property after the apparatus was placed back in service, do not include it in this section.
Include those people injured while responding to or returning from the incident. If the injury occurred on fire department property after the apparatus was placed back in service, do not include it in this section.
Element Specification
Specification | Value |
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Requirement | Mandatory |
Element Type | Numeric – Integer numbers (no decimal points). If the user has not provided information, an empty field should be transmitted. All integer values are assumed to be positive. Any fields which allow a negative integer value have been denoted with ‘+ or –’ in the comment field. Negative numbers should be transmitted with the minus sign preceding the digits. |
Transactions containing ‘Fire Service Injuries’
The value of this element is captured by the following transaction :
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Last Updated on May 1, 2023