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NERIS incident type lookup

All 128 NERIS incident types, across7 top-level categories and 22 second-level ones. Search by anything: "chimney", "cardiac", "cancelled", or a code fragment like VEHICLE_FIRE.

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How to read a code

A NERIS incident type is up to three levels, joined with a double pipe in the API payload:

FIRE||STRUCTURE_FIRE||ROOM_AND_CONTENTS_FIRE

Not every type goes three deep. NOEMERG||CANCELLED stops at two levels and LAWENFORCE is a single value with no sub-levels at all. Those are complete types, not truncated ones.

An incident can carry more than one type, with one marked primary. A car into a pole with a patient and a wire down is not a filing dilemma; it is several types on one incident.

Where this list comes from

Generated from the enum tables our own submission code uses, which were transcribed from the NERIS v1 schema. It is the same list the app validates against before it files anything; if a code here were wrong, our submissions would be rejected too.

The authoritative source is NERIS itself: the NERIS data dictionary and technical reference. If you find a discrepancy, NERIS is right and we want to know: this table is only useful if it is exact.

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