the Fire Data system in the USA is changing
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Peteri Szerlagi
Aug 9, 2025, 8:48:00 AM8/9/25
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https://www.nfpa.org/news-blogs-and-articles/nfpa-journal/2025/08/08/data-evolution-national-emergency-response-information-system
we posted about this maybe 1 year ago - we read that NFIRS was getting
data from only ? 70% ? of FDs - we said that NFIRS was useless based
on this fact
today - as soon as we started to read this article - this idea popped
into mind - NFPA and USFA should use scanner feeds and / or social
media and / or main stream media to improve the accuracy of their USA
fire data
if your data system shows that a certain city has 2 fires per day -
while a scanner feed reveals that the city has 4 fires per day - then
you know that your data system is off by a factor of 2
(something tells me that NFPA has been using main stream media to
modify their results all along - it would be the smart thing to do)
the new data system is called NERIS
keywords - live scanner audio - openness - broadcastify - open mhz - openMhz
we posted about this maybe 1 year ago - we read that NFIRS was getting
data from only ? 70% ? of FDs - we said that NFIRS was useless based
on this fact
today - as soon as we started to read this article - this idea popped
into mind - NFPA and USFA should use scanner feeds and / or social
media and / or main stream media to improve the accuracy of their USA
fire data
if your data system shows that a certain city has 2 fires per day -
while a scanner feed reveals that the city has 4 fires per day - then
you know that your data system is off by a factor of 2
(something tells me that NFPA has been using main stream media to
modify their results all along - it would be the smart thing to do)
the new data system is called NERIS
keywords - live scanner audio - openness - broadcastify - open mhz - openMhz
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