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Reference Section: Fire and EMS
<br />Definitions
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<br />• Emergency calls: This includes all calls dispatched as emergency calls (lights and sirens), regardless
<br />of traffic or weather conditions that may be encountered en route. Emergency calls do not include
<br />those calls that were downgraded from emergency to non - emergency upon engine arrival due to
<br />false alarm or the fire having already been extinguished.
<br />• False alarms: This includes good intent calls, malicious alarms, mischievous alarms, bomb scares,
<br />system or detector malfunctions, and all other false alarms.
<br />• Fire and EMS expenditures: This includes expenditures related to Fire Services and Emergency
<br />Medical Services, expenditures for work performed by local government employees (including
<br />supervisors and managers whose primary areas of responsibility include Fire and EMS activities),
<br />salaries and fringe benefits, supplies, materials, parts, and expenditures from all funds. This excludes
<br />all vehicle purchases and replacements (even if the purchase is made via an annual accrual from
<br />operating Funds), those expenditures considered capital expenditures by jurisdiction policy,
<br />expenditures for overhead activities, management staff not directly involved in supervision of Fire
<br />and EMS personnel or activities, facilities management (custodial, maintenance, building
<br />depreciation, and all utilities), finance /payroll, fleet management, information technology (and all
<br />telephone calls and system admin.), human resources, risk management (and workers'
<br />compensation), purchasing, expenditures for fuel, depreciation, and building lease expenses and
<br />expenditures for vehicle purchase /replacement or any related annual accruals.
<br />• Fire and EMS hours paid: This includes hours paid to supervisory and non - supervisory staff, full -time
<br />staff, part -time staff, seasonal personnel, all types of hours paid (regular; overtime; sick, vacation,
<br />and other paid leave); and any other hours paid for all Fire Service and Emergency Medical Services.
<br />This excludes hours paid for overhead activities, such as management staff not directly involved in
<br />supervision, facilities management (custodial /repair, bldg. depreciation, all utilities), finance /payroll,
<br />fleet management (and all fuel), purchasing, information technology (and all telephone calls and
<br />system admin.), human resources, risk management (and all workers compensation), overtime
<br />hours worked by employees who do not qualify for overtime pay (e.g., FLSA- exempt employees),
<br />and hours paid to contractual staff.
<br />• Flamespread confined to the floor or structure of origin: This includes fires confined to floor of
<br />origin or structure of origin (NFIRS 5.0 codes 3 and 4). This question should not double -count
<br />incidents confined to object or room of origin.
<br />• Flamespread confined to the object or room of origin: This includes those fires confined to the
<br />object of origin or room of origin (NFIRS 5.0 codes 1 and 2). Incident types 113 -118 (cooking fires
<br />contained to stove, fires contained to chimney, etc.) do not require the completion of the structure
<br />fire module, but should also be logged as being confined to object or room of origin.
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