Fire Service Casualty - Equipment Failure - NFIRS

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NFIRS 5.0 Transaction: ‘Fire Service Casualty - Equipment Failure’

Description: ‘Provides details of the equipment that led to the a fire service casualty’

Class: Used for incident transactions

Module: Fire Service Casualty

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Transaction Elements:

The ‘Fire Service Casualty - Equipment Failure’ transaction contains the following elements in order.

Key Elements:

These elements are part of the ‘Fire Service Casualty - Equipment Failure’ transaction, as they are part of every transaction, since they form the record key; they uniquely identify the incident from other incidents.

• Fire Department ID
• Fire Department State
• Incident (Alarm) Date
• Incident Number (Identifier)
• Exposure Number
• Record Type/Transaction Code
• Transaction Type (Add, Update, Delete)

Transaction Specific Elements:

These elements are part of the specific information carried by the ‘Fire Service Casualty - Equipment Failure’ transaction. They form the main payload of this transaction.

• Fire Service Casualty Sequence Number
• Protective Equipment Sequence Number
• Protective Equipment Item
• Protective Equipment Problem
• Equipment Manufacturer
• Equipment Model
• Equipment Serial Number

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Transaction Blocks:

These blocks are collections of elements carried by the ‘Fire Service Casualty - Equipment Failure’ transaction.

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