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# NFIRS Training

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The U.S. Fire Administration provides National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) resources for local and state fire personnel who are just beginning to use NFIRS and for advanced users who are managing their organization’s NFIRS program. Our training will help you to achieve uniformity in your incident and activity reporting and to use the data to identify and solve local and regional problems.

## National Fire Academy

Free classroom and online training to enhance the knowledge and skills of NFIRS users is available from the National Fire Academy. Select a course below to read the course description, course location and application instructions.
              - Introduction to NFIRS 5.0
              - NFIRS 5.0 Self-Study (Q0494)
              - NFIRS Program Management
              - NFIRS Program Manager

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## Enterprise Data Warehouse training

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### NFIRS Enterprise Data Warehouse Reports User Guide – Part 1

#### For New Enterprise Data Warehouse Users (Read-Only Permissions)

This guide will assist NFIRS users to properly set up a work area with the NFIRS Enterprise Data Warehouse to generate and customize the NFIRS Standard Reports.

 Download the user guide

### NFIRS Enterprise Data Warehouse Reports Tool

#### Local Fire Department User Quick Start Guide

This quick start guide will help fire departments to schedule standard reports in the NFIRS Enterprise Data Warehouse, including reports from the Summary Output Reports Tool.

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms_c-_WX7HE

Video accompaniment to the Local Fire Department User Quick Start Guide

## How-to videos

### Forgot username and password

 https://www.youtube.com/embed/L0dIo_idHiU

This video will guide your through the process to self-manage your username and/or password.

###  Watch more NFIRS videos on YouTube

### Getting started

eNFIRS: How to register as a user
Instructions on how to request a new NFIRS account.

eNFIRS: Quick tour
Watch this video for an overview of the eNFIRS application.

eNFIRS: Support and resources
An overview of the resources available to provide help with eNFIRS and general NFIRS questions.

### Accounts

eNFIRS: Forgot username and password
This video will guide your through the process to self-manage your username and/or password.

eNFIRS: How to change your password
Instructions for NFIRS users on how to change their password.

### Data entry

eNFIRS: Edit and save basic incident details
Learn how to edit and save basic incident details for NFIRS records.

eNFIRS: Exposure incidents
How to create an exposure incident from another incident in NFIRS.

eNFIRS: Form-Based Incident Report (FBIR) utility
How to export printable PDF reports of eNFIRS incidents through the FBIR utility.

eNFIRS: How to create an incident
How to create an incident with eNFIRS.

eNFIRS: How to manage incident modules
How to manage the modules of an incident in NFIRS.

eNFIRS: How to search for an incident
How to search for an existing incident using the eNFIRS interface.

### Fire departments

eNFIRS: Export fire departments
Instructions on how to export fire departments as text files. Important: Not all users will have the permissions to do the actions seen in this video.

eNFIRS: Import fire departments
How to import fire departments into NFIRS. Important: Not all users will have the permissions to do the actions seen in the video.

eNFIRS: Searching for fire departments
Learn how to search for fire departments in NFIRS. Important: Not all users will have the permissions to do the actions seen in this video.

eNFIRS: Update fire department details
Instructions for system administrators on how to update a fire department's details and apparatus records in NFIRS. Important: Not all users will have the permissions to do the actions seen in this video.

### Import and export incidents

eNFIRS: Bulk Import Utility
How to upload your incident files using the Bulk Import Utility into NFIRS. Important: Not all users will have the permissions to do the actions seen in this video.

eNFIRS: Exporting incidents
This video provides instruction on how to export incidents from NFIRS as raw text files.

eNFIRS: Importing incident files (in depth)
Learn about the overall process for importing files into NFIRS. Important: Not all users will have the permissions to do the actions seen in this video.

eNFIRS: Reading NFIRS incident log files
This video provides instructions on how to read the result log files after importing incidents into NFIRS. Important: Not all users will have the permissions to do the actions seen in this video.

### Program management

eNFIRS: Bulk release and unrelease incidents
Learn how to release and unrelease incidents. Important: Not all users will have the permissions to do the actions seen in this video.

eNFIRS: Manage fire departments and groups
Learn how to manage fire departments and groups in NFIRS. Important: Not all users will have the permissions to do the actions seen in this video.

eNFIRS: Manage users
Instructions for system administrators on how to manage users in NFIRS. Topics covered include searching for users, unlocking user accounts, resetting passwords, approving new users and editing user details. Important: Not all users will have the permissions to do the actions seen in this video.

eNFIRS: Permissions
How to edit user permissions in NFIRS and what these permissions allow a user to do. Important: Not all users will have the permissions to do the actions seen in this video.

Page last reviewed: Oct. 25, 2023

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