Models and Application of Firefighting Vulnerability

Geographic information systems (GIS) have been applied to analyze the efficiency and effectiveness of public facility services such as fire stations, police stations and day-care centers. Regardless of the scientific contribution of such an approach, there are numerous limitations to follow the rules or optimized suggestions due to high land price and other societal factors. In the present study, we narrowed the scope to firefighting services: how to decrease firefighting dismissals and help firefighters recognize the situation of fire events before arriving at the fire scenes. The absolute time from the fire station to the fire scene was considered to be the Mobility Kill Zone. Narrow roads and illegal parking were classified as the Operation Kill Zone. Areas with identified hazardous commodities and toxic substances were classified as the Identified Hazardous Zone. The areas cluttered with fire safety management objects were classified as the Fire Vulnerability Zone. Four models were suggested in our previous research and in the present study, we elaborated upon the models and examined new information technology (IT) to implement the models in rural and urban areas.