- Author
- Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board
- Title
- Emergency Response Statistical Handbook. 1997-1998.
- Coporate
- Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board, Australia
- Report
- Handbook; 2nd Edition, 1999, 167 p.
- Keywords
- handbooks | emergencies | fire statistics | fire departments
- Abstract
- This is the second edition of the Emergency Response Statistical Handbook. This edition reflects a deliberate decision to concentrate on refining, clarifying and presentation without unnecessary change from the previous edition. The objectives of the Handbook are to provide: Useful demographic information based on Fire Station Maintenance Area, Relevant comparative Zone and Station data, and Interesting feedback on Fire Station input to AIRS and Firecom. Demographic information is generally released on a five-year basis. The information provided in this Handbook represents a small, but relevant, amount that is available. If you consider that other information might be of more use please put your ideas on the form provided at the end of the Handbook. This form is also a feedback questionnaire to help improve the next edition. Feel free to photocopy fill-in and send to the Commander, Emergency Response Management (ERM). In this edition the percentages that were located under the 1996/97 AIRS data are replaced with the 1997/98 AIRS data to provide a two-year comparison. Also, the 1996/97 data may vary marginally from those published in the previous edition. This variation is due to housekeeping work carried out on the AIRS database in the last year. Emergency response data is obtained from the Australasian Incident Reporting System (AIRS) database. The data is input by the Officer-In-Charge of the incident. This sometimes arduous task makes this Handbook and many other research and information projects possible. The demo-graphic data is sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 1991 and 1996 census results. The data has been overlaid on each Station's Maintenance Area. Whilst the ABS Collection Districts do not directly correlate with station maintenance areas the results are a good approximation for the purposes of this Handbook. Data for the years prior to those in this Handbook are available on request through the Emergency Response Management.