NFPA Seattle Report - 2006 to 2010

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Each year the Seattle Fire Department sends information about fire related incidents to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). The following are the report details for the years indicated are displayed in a similar format as the NFPA survey form that is sent to all fire jurisdictions.

 

Fire Service Personnel

  2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Number of full-time uniform firefighters: 1,001 1,015 1.013    
Number of part-time (volunteer) firefighters: 0 0 0 0 0
*Actual positions filled is typically less than the total number of positions (which is filled plus vacancies) and does not include recruits.
**Actual average number of filled positions.

 

Number of Active Fire Fighters by Age Group

  2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Under 20 29 0 0    
20 to 29 299 36 34    
30 to 39 389 285 262    
40 to 49 256 399 408    
50 to 59 28 260 261    
60 and Over 0 35 48    

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Definitions

Civilian Casualties:  The term "civilian" should include anyone other than a fire fighter and covers public service personnel, such as police officers, civil defense staff, non-fire service medical personnel, and utility employees.

Death:  An injury that occurred as a direct result of a fire and that is fatal or becomes fatal within one year.

Incendiary:  Legal decision or physical evidence indicates that a fire was deliberately set.

Fires:  Any instance of uncontrolled burning. Include combustion explosions and fires out on arrival. Exclude controlled burning (whether authorized or not), overpressure rupture without combustion, mutual aid responses, smoke scares, and hazardous condition responses (e. g., oil spill without fire). In the case of an extension of a fire to exposed properties please report just one fire including all associated casualties and property loss.

Mutual Aid or Assistance:  Any assistance rendered to another fire department in an area that is not considered your primary responsibility.

Structure:  An assembly of materials forming a construction for occupancy or use in such a manner as to serve a specific purpose. A building is a form of a structure. Open platforms, bridges, roof assemblies over open storage or process areas, tents, air-supported structures, and grandstands are other forms of a structure.

Suspicious:  Circumstances indicate the possibility that a fire may have been deliberately set, multiple ignitions were found, or there were suspicious circumstances and no accidental or natural ignition factor could be found.

Fires in Highway Vehicles and Other Vehicles:  Fires in these instances may have been associated with an accident; however, casualties and property loss reported should be the direct result of the fire only. Highway vehicles include any vehicle designed to normally operate on highways, e. g., automobiles, motorcycles, buses, trucks, trailers (not mobile homes on foundations), etc. Other vehicles include trains, boats and ships, aircraft, farm, and construction vehicles.

Property Damage:  Give your best estimate for overall direct loss - loss to contents, structure, machinery, a vehicle, vegetation or anything else involved in the fire. Do not include indirect losses, such as business interruption, or temporary shelter provisions. Insurance paid should be reported only if corresponded to the complete fire loss and did not over or understate the direct fire damage. If you estimate individual fire losses as broad ranges (e. g., $1,000 to $10,000), do not attempt to add these ranges to get a single overall figure. Instead, report "NA". If your loss records are not complete at this time, report "NA" as appropriate.

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Part I:  Population and Area Protected of Primary Responsibility and Community Type Protected

Number of people (permanent residents) your department had primary responsibility to protect (exclude mutual aid areas):

2008
563,400


Area, in square miles, your department had primary responsibility to protect (exclude mutual aid areas): 
 91 Square Miles

Percentage of population protected that live in an unincorporated area:   0%

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Part II:  Major Fires

Please indicate all multiple-death fires (3 or more deaths), and all large-loss fires ($1 million or more) that occurred in the reporting year. If none, please list below the three highest loss of life fires (if any) during the reporting year and also the three fires with the highest property damage.

Date Property Address No. of Civilian Deaths Property Loss
7/5/2006 N.O.A.A. 1801 Fairview Avenue 0 $7 million
7/14/2006 House 3825 Interlake Avenue 0 $1 million
7/30/2006 Four Freedoms Apt Bldg 747 N. 135 Street 2 $800.000
11/1/2007 Residence, 8106 14th Ave SW 1 $5,000
5/21/2007 Metropole Bldg, commercial, 421 2nd Ave 0 $1,100,000
6/14/2007 Residence, 1500 25th Avenue South 0 $1,000,000
6/22/2007 Residence, 2017 Fariview Avenue 0 $1,005,000
11/22/2007 Regency Cleaners, commercial, 8506 14th Avenue South 0 $1,000,000
9/19/2008 Residence, Duplex Apt, 1943 77th Ave West 0 $2,000,000
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       

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  Part III:  Breakdown of Fires and Other Incidents

Fires in structures and other fires and incidents should be included in this Part. If you had no fires, no causalities, or no loss for a particular category, please write "0" int he appropriate place. Departments using the 1976 edition of NFPA 901 or NFIRS will find the Type or Situation Found (TSF), Fixed Property Use (FPU), and Mobile Property Type (MPT) codes for each category in parentheses. For all items except item 22 include only incidents where you had primary responsibility. For fires in vehicles include only those casualties and property loss that are the direct result of the fire.

A. Structure Fires by Fixed Property Use 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
1. Private Dwellings (1 or 2 family), inc. mobile homes 185 170 174    

# of Fires:  

# of Civilian Deaths:  

 1 1 1    
# of Civilian Injuries:   8 7 7    
Estimated Property Damage:   $3,957,210 $4,912,118 $5,636,382    
2. Apartments (3 or more families) 163 156 127    

# of Fires:  
# of Civilian Deaths:   3 0 1    
# of Civilian Injuries:   9 8 4    
Estimated Property Damage:   $827,700 $1,655,526 $10,666,100    
3. Hotels & Motels 6 6 2    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   0 0 0    
# of Civilian Injuries:   0 0 0    
Estimated Property Damage:   0 $62,500 0    
4. All Other Residential (dorms, boarding houses,  etc.) 34 20 19    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   0 0 0    
# of Civilian Injuries:   3 0 0    
Estimated Property Damage:   $371,300 $382,100 $59,490    
5. Total Residential Fires 388 352 322    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   4 1 2    
# of Civilian Injuries:   20 15 11    
Estimated Property Damage:   $5,156,210 $7,012,244 $16,361,972    
6. Public Assembly (church, restaurant, clubs, etc.) 0 0 0    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   0 0 0    
# of Civilian Injuries:   0 0 0    
Estimated Property Damage:   0 0 0    
7. Schools & Colleges 12 7 10    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   0 0 0    
# of Civilian Injuries:   0 0 0    
Estimated Property Damage:   0 $120,000 $1,300    
8. Health Care & Penal Institutions (hospitals, prisons, nursing homes, etc.) 6 10 4    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   0 0 0    
# of Civilian Injuries:   0 0 0    
Estimated Property Damage:   0 $150 0    
9. Stores & Offices 18 28 37    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   0 0 0    
# of Civilian Injuries:   0 0 1    
Estimated Property Damage:   $650,000 $2,766,002 355,400    
10. Industry, Utility, Defense, Labs & Manufacturing 9 4 9    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   0 0 0    
# of Civilian Injuries:   0 0 2    
Estimated Property Damage:   $1,000,000 $5,000 1,043,550    
11. Storage Structures (barns, garages, general storage, etc.) 12 13 8    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   0 0 0    
# of Civilian Injuries:   0 0 0    
Estimated Property Damage:   $108,500 53,100 108,500    
12. Other Structures** (vacant bldgs., bridges, out-buildings) 0 12  20    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   0 0 0    
# of Civilian Injuries:   0 0 0    
Estimated Property Damage:   0 0 42,600    
13. Total for Structure Fires 445 426 410    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   4 1 2    
# of Civilian Injuries:   20 15 14    
Estimated Property Damage:   $6,914,710 $9,956,496 17,913,322    

 *  The NFPA changed the definition for Part III, Section A, No. 4 in 2003
B. Other Fires & Incidents 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
14a Fires in Highway Vehicles (autos, buses, trucks, etc.) 350 306 250    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   1 0 0    
# of Civilian Injuries:   0 1 3    
Estimated Property Damage:   $292,000 $722,86 456,657    
14b Fire in Other Vehicles  (planes, trains, ships, etc.) 41 33 35    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   0 0 0    
# of Civilian Injuries:   0 0 1    
Estimated Property Damage:   $287,500 $81,950 379,000    
15. Fires Outside of Storage Structures w/Value (but not vehicles) 204 128 111    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   0 0 0    
# of Civilian Injuries:   0 0 1    
Estimated Property Damage:   $850 $19,271 2,862    
16. Brush, Grass, Wildland Fires w/No Value (excluding crops & timber) 242 188 128    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   0 0 0    
# of Civilian Injuries:   0 0 0    
17. Rubbish/Dumpster Fires w/No Value  Involved (outside of structures) 558 484 467    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   0 0 0    
# of Civilian Injuries:   0 0 0    
18. All Other Fires 249 194 193    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   0 0 0    
# of Civilian Injuries:   1  1 3    
Estimated Property Damage:   $19,065 $532,348 63,700    
19. Total for Fires 2,089 1,759 1,594    
# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:   5 1 2    
# of Civilian Injuries:   21 17 22    
Estimated Property Damage:   $6,914,710 $11,312,927 18,815,541    
20. Rescue, EMS Response*  64,546 64,488 65,175    
21. False Alarm Responses 6,503 6272 6,152    
22. Mutual Aid or Assistance 115 88 62    
23a Hazardous Materials (spills, leaks, etc.) 369 315 282    
23b Other Hazardous Materials (wires, bombs) 834 539 525    
24. All Other Responses (lock outs, animal rescues, etc.) 5,556 5,072 4,713    
25. Total For All Incidents  80,012 78,533 78,503    

** This category refers only to structure fires (i.e., not brush or vehicle).

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 Part IV:  Breakdown of False Alarm Responses
  2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
1. Malicious, Mischievous False Call

449

466

 446    
2. System Malfunction 2,127 1,780 1,768    
3. Unintentional (Accidental tripping, etc.) 2,502 2,620 2,554    
4. Other False Alarms (bomb scares etc.) 1,425 1406 1,372    

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 Part V:  Incendiary and Suspicious Fires in Structures and Vehicles

Report in this part fires of incendiary origin (fires that were deliberately set) or of suspicious origin (fires that are suspected of having been deliberately set).

 
   2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

1.

Structure Fires, Intentionally Set 31 30 28    

# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:    0 0 1
# of Civilian Injuries:    0 1 3
Estimated Property Damage:    $374,300 $269,500 $8,137,130    

2.

 Vehicle Fires, Intentionally Set 23 29 20    

# of Fires:   
# of Civilian Deaths:    0 0 0    
# of Civilian Injuries:    0 0 0    
Estimated Property Damage:    $24,500 $117,200 $84,765    

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 Part VI:  Fire Service Deaths and Injuries  

Occupationally related fire fighter deaths: If any fire fighters in your department died during the reporting year as a result of occupationally related injuries or illness, report the total.

  2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Total Number of FF deaths 0 0 NA    
FF's Exposed to Infectious Diseases (hepatitis, HIV, meningitis) 32 42 NA    
FF's Exposed to hazardous conditions (asbestos, chemicals, fumes, etc) - 0 NA    
FF Injuries - All Types of Duty (not exposures to infectious diseases) 359 355 NA    
 

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On-Duty Fire Fighter Injuries (not exposures to infectious diseases) by Type of Duty, and Nature of Most Serious Injury. If a fire fighter sustained multiple injuries, report below only the nature of the single most serious injury. For type of duty, at non-fire emergencies includes rescue calls and hazardous condition calls, while other on-duty includes inspection and maintenance duties. The sum of the reported injuries in the table below should equal the total number of injuries reported above.
  Responding or Returning from Incidents Injuries at the Fire Ground Injuries at Non-Fire Emergencies Training Injuries Other On-Duty Injuries
1. Burns
2006 0 0 0 0 0
2007 0 3 0 0 0
2008 0 2 0 0 0
2a. Smoke or Gas Inhalation
2006 0 3 0 0 1
2007 1 0 0 0 0
2008 0 0 6 0 0
2b. Other Respiratory Distress
2006 0 0 0 0 0
2007 0 0 0 0 0
2008 0 0 0 0 1
3. Burn and Smoke Inhalation
2006 0 0 0 0 0
2007 0 1 0 0 0
2008 1 1 0 0 0
4. Wound, Cut, Bleeding or Bruise
2006 0 5 7 9 14
2007 8 2 7 0 13
2008 4 0 0 2 13
5. Dislocation, Fracture
2006 0 0 1 0 0
2007 0 3 0 0 0
2008 1 0 0 2 0
6. Heart Attack or Stroke
2006 0 0 0 3 3
2007 0 0 1 0 1
2008 0 0 0 0 0
7. Strain, Sprain, Muscular Pain
2006 12 47 54 28 52
2007 30 32 64 31 90
2008 31 42 47 47 78
8. Thermal Stress (frostbite, heat exhaustion)
2006 0 6 1 2 0
2007 0 4 0 0 0
2008 0 3 0 0 0
9. Other (all other injuries)
2006 0 1 30 5 11
2007 1 1 31 0 9
2008 1 1 33 4 19
10. TOTAL
2006 12 62 92 44 78
2007 39 46 103 31 113
2008 38 49 86 55 111
 

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Fire Ground Injuries (Nonfatal) By Cause
In this table, include injuries that occurred at the fire ground only, as reported in column (B) above. Report the number of fire ground injuries by cause, based on the initial factor leading to the injury. 
Fire Ground Injuries 2006 2007 2008
1. Exposure to Fire Products 3 4 2
2. Exposure to Chemicals or Radiation 0 0 1
3. Fell, Slipped, Jumped 13 14 8
4. Overexertion, Strain 29 18 4
5. Contact w/Object 2 2 0
6. Struck by Object 1 0 0
7. Extreme Weather 0 2 0
8. Other (all other causes) 14 6 34
Number of Injuries that resulted in lost time 37 43 44
Number of shifts lost as a result of injuries 170 1509 312
 

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Fire Department Vehicle Accidents
Please report below the number of accidents involving fire department emergency vehicles or fire fighter personal vehicles while responding to or returning from incidents. Include backing up and parking.
Fire Dept. Vehicle Accidents

2006

2007

 2008
Accidents involving Fire Dept. Emergency Vehicles NA NA NA
     Resulting Fire Fighter Injuries NA NA NA
Accident's involving Fire Fighter's personal vehicle NA NA NA
     Resulting Fire Fighter injuries NA NA NA

 

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