The safety of life cannot solely rely on any single safeguard. Today every minute there are incidents of fire and the casualties’ losses in terms of casualties and funds are massive. The main drawback behind these incidents is the absence of a proper feedback system which has crippled the ability to go for performance evaluation, enhancement and safety evaluation.
In our discussions with major fire service of India, they expressed a need to explore ways to increase available time for the fire service to react in the event of a fire. The research intends to help make fire fighting more effective by getting a better understanding of the trend of fire specifically in incidents of high fires.
Our goal is to protect against the devastation of fire, explosions and life safety hazards with integrity and fairness through fire prevention, public education, planning, research and investigation. In order to achieve this goal we have developed a National Fire Reporting System and a comprehensive feedback system by implementing a web-based database application to record, update and analyze the fire incidents across the country to provide a baseline for evaluating programs.
The vision of this project is to develop a national fire incident database for documenting the fire events in India. Added to this, the common project objectives are to develop fire protection solutions and enhance strategic and tactical plans across India which can help reduce hazards to firefighters.
As per the latest state of forest survey of India the actual forest cover of India is 19.27%
of the geographic area, corresponding to 63.3 million ha. Only 38 million ha of forests are well stocked (crown density above 40%). This resource has to meet the demand of a popuation
of 950 million people and around 450 million cattle. As such, country has to meet the needs of 16% of the world's population from 1% of the
world forest resources.The same forest has also
to cater for 19% of the worlds cattle population.