Abstract It is important to reduce fire department response times to incidents to improve communities’ general safety, to make the allocation of emergency resources more efficient, and to improve situational awareness. In this article, we identify which factors affect turnout times and travel times for the Arlington County Fire Department in Virginia by applying both linear and spatial models to the U.S. National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) data. The uniformity of NFIRS data makes this article’s methodological innovations applicable to other participating fire departments in the United States and advances the effort to incorporate scientific evidence into government-level policy-making.

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模拟结构火灾的响应时间

摘要 减少消防部门对事故的响应时间对提高社区总体安全、提高应急资源分配效率和提高态势感知能力具有重要意义。在本文中，我们通过将线性和空间模型应用于美国国家火灾事故报告系统 (NFIRS) 数据，确定哪些因素会影响弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿县消防局的出勤时间和行程时间。NFIRS 数据的一致性使得本文的方法创新适用于美国其他参与的消防部门，并推动将科学证据纳入政府级决策的努力。