| T68 |
|
| The National Fire Operations Reporting System (N-FORS), Intelligent Fire Data for Today's Informed Fire Service Leaders |
| Lori Moore-Merrell, IAFF |
|
|
| |
This case study details how the National Fire Operations Reporting System (N-FORS) solves the information and analysis gap in describing the structure fire incident. N-FORS captures data elements that describe, measure, and allow benchmarking of fire operations and its association with firefighter and civilian injury, death, and property loss. The real time reporting and analysis of facts empowers fire service leaders to allocate resources, create a national fire database, and produce the only firefighter career diary.
Presented by:
Lori Moore-Merrell, IAFF
Lori Moore-Merrell is an Assistant to the President of the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF). Lori's expertise is in emergency response system design, staffing and deployment of mobile resources, system performance measurement and evaluation. She has managed emergency response system evaluation teams, including geographic information systems (GIS) analysis, in more than 500 fire departments throughout North America. Lori's experience and educational background includes 7 years of service as a fire/paramedic with the City of Memphis Fire Department. She holds a BS degree in Education, a MPH degree in Epidemiology and a DrPH degree in Quality Performance Measurement from The George Washington University. At present, Dr. Moore-Merrell serves as the co-principal investigator on a DHS/AFG funded project to develop an instrument to assess community vulnerability based on a comparison of community risks/hazards to fire department resource deployment known as FireCARES (Community Assessment Response Evaluation System) and as co-principal investigator on the DHS/AFG funded National Fire Operations Reporting System (N-FORS) Project.
|
| |
|
