13 AAC 52.020 - Fire records

(a) Every fire or other related incident must be reported to the state fire marshal. Incident reports must be submitted within the first 10 days of the month following the month in which the incident occurred. Incident reports must be submitted by the fire chief, investigating officer, or the fire chiefs or investigating officer's designee, and be National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) 5.0 compatible, unless otherwise agreed between a fire department or fire agency and the state fire marshal. The division of fire and life safety shall provide each reporting fire department an annual summary of fire-related incidents reported under this section. The division shall provide the annual summary not later than September 1 of each year. The state fire marshal mandates those modules currently required by the United States Fire Administration (USFA) NFIRS 5.0 standard with the addition of the following fields:

(1) Civilian Fire Casualty - All Fields;

(2) Fire Service Casualty Module - All Fields;

(3) Arson/Juvenile Firesetter - All Fields.

(b) The division of fire and life safety will keep a record of all fires and of all the facts concerning them, including statistics as to the extent of fires and the damage caused, and whether the losses were covered by insurance and, if so, in what amount. The record will be compiled from the Alaska National Fire Incident Reporting System (ANFIRS) submitted by the fire department officers and investigators. All the records are public, except when a criminal matter is pending.

(c) Each fire insurance company authorized to transact business in this state, or its authorized agent or adjuster, shall report to the division of fire and life safety all fire losses on property insured, giving the name and address of the insured, the date of the fire, the amount of probable loss, the character of the property destroyed or damaged and the probable cause of the fire. The loss must be reported to the state fire marshal within three days after the final adjustment is made.

(d) At the conclusion of a fire investigation the disposition of the investigation shall be forwarded to the state fire marshal for inclusion in the fire record.

(e) In this section, "fire agency" includes the Department of Public Safety, the Division of Forestry and Fire Protection in the Department of Natural Resources, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and National Park Service in the United States Department of Interior, the Forest Service in the United States Department of Agriculture, or any other fire company that is not considered a true fire department.

Notes

13 AAC 52.020

In effect before 7/28/59; am 7/25/60, Register 30; am 2/21/71, Register 37; am 8/2/86, Register 99; am 8/31/96, Register 139; am 8/27/2004, Register 171; am 9/13/2007, Register 183; am 11/16/2012, Register 204; am 5/19/2017, Register 222, July 2017; am 10/28/2022, Register 244, January 2023

Authority:AS 18.70.030