Initial exploration of fire information for Indigenous communities in the NFID (2005-2021) based on geolocation data : summary of residential structure fire information / A.P. Robbins.: NR24-133/2025E-PDF

"This exploratory effort was undertaken in response to the current Canadian situation of a scarcity of fire incident information for Indigenous communities and with the hope of identifying an additional data source that might enrich the information collected via the recently launched voluntary National Incident Reporting System (NIRS). Key results from the exploratory analysis include the ability to identify available fire information in the National Fire Information Database (NFID) for incidents that were located within Indigenous communities. Furthermore, where comparison with previously published studies was possible, similar trends were observed during the exploratory analysis of the current study for all residential fires. Therefore, the NFID could be used to provide an additional data source to combine with NIRS information so that the enriched data could be available for Indigenous communities to help inform fire risk reduction plans tailored to and by each community. …"--Executive summary, page 3.

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