| Summary: | INTRODUCTION: : State Fire Service (SFS) officers are increasingly frequently carrying out medical rescue activities (MRA), especially in the scope of qualified first aid (QFA), providing assistance to people harmed in fires and other local threats.Due to the accepted medical procedures, possessed medical equipment and a high number of officers with medical background, SFS units are the second service, right after NEMS, in terms of the volume of provided medical support in different events, particularly fires (F) and local threats (LT). MATERIAL AND METHODS: The paper used the statistical data regarding performance of QFA tasks by SFS officers from the Decision-Making Support System of the State Fire Service (DMSSFS), made available by the Operations Planning Office (OPO) in the Headquarters of the State Fire Service (HSFS). The analyzed material covered the period of 2010 – 2021 and the area of the capital city of Warsaw.Using the method of choropleth maps to present the administrative units of the city, the most overloaded places in terms of emergency activities were presented where QFA intervention was required. RESULTS: The number of events recorded by SFS in Warsaw in the analyzed period was 150,209 (without false alarms – FA), during which QFA activities were performed 9,911 times. The average percentage number of such activities in relation to all events (fires and local threats) was 6.60% and a slow, yet systematic, growth of such events in consecutive years.The highest magnitude of QFA activities – and so the very high level (>201 points) was seen in the district of Śródmieście and the high level(121-200 points)in the following districts: Mokotów, Wola, PragaPółnoc, PragaPołudnie, Targówek. In particular, considering individual estates, these were: ŚródmieściePołudniowe (293), StaryMokotów (150), Mirów (139), Brudno (122), Zacisze (179), Grochów (155) and SaskaKępa (145). CONCLUSIONS: Assessment of the usefulness of mapping medical interventionsand the analyzed spatial data confirmthat the KDE method is characterized by a more precise fitting of the fragments of the MIS estates to the scale of magnitude of the investigated event – QFA activities performed by SFS firefighters. Therefore, using the analytical techniques of GIS is a good tool for planning and interventional support for the SFS activities and it additionally shows phenomena not visible when the data are presented in a table.
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