| Description | Register before December 9. We must have at least 20 students register before Dec. 9 in order for this class to be offered. This 2-day course teaches students how to use standardized forms to achieve uniformity in their incident and activity reporting.This training program is designed specifically to support local fire service organizations, and will assist them in providing data both to their management and to decisionmakers, as well as to their State uniform fire reporting system. At a local level, the NFIRS data can be used to:* describe a community's fire problem;* support budget requests;* improve decisonmaking for allocation of resources;* assist in planning for future fire protection;* help identify opportunities for scheduling nonemergency activities;* evaluate code enforcement programs; and* identify target audiences for public fire education programs. This 2-day course teaches students how to use standardized forms to achieve uniformity in their incident and activity reporting.This training program is designed specifically to support local fire service organizations, and will assist them in providing data both to their management and to decisionmakers, as well as to their State uniform fire reporting system. At a local level, the NFIRS data can be used to:* describe a community's fire problem;* support budget requests;* improve decisonmaking for allocation of resources;* assist in planning for future fire protection;* help identify opportunities for scheduling nonemergency activities;* evaluate code enforcement programs; and* identify target audiences for public fire education programs. |