CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1.0    BACKGROUND OF STUDY
Online disaster report and management system is a web based application that enables organization to observe, analyze, and store information of disasters. The system is basically design to benefit modern technology to standardize, organize and manage the data and information about fire disasters. Most of the fire service stations in this century most especially our case study, their current system of storing information is not a computerize system all their works are done manually. In the current work is very difficult, because each and every record is writing into a book, deletion, changes etc. so this research work is carried out in other to realize this, it aims at making it possible to reach the data quickly during and after a disaster. The frequency and therefore the risk of the last decades, parallel to and generated by the development of communities with the advancement of human civilization, fire disaster has been a prime concern. Therefore, with the growing of modern computer technology, fire service stations most especially Sokoto state fire service as (case study) needs to embrace and properly utilize this technology in order to ensure effectiveness and efficiency in their activities.
1.1    STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
There are excessive amount of problems militating against effective prompt service delivery of fire service and safety management. As it has being observed that the conventional method used in preparing and managing disaster report has resulted to the following problems;
✓    Inability to access disaster report anytime and anywhere
✓    Time consuming and costly to produce reports
✓    Records are usually hard to retrieve and there usually cases where records are lost due to carelessness and misplace of files.
✓    Lack of effectiveness in manual method of record keeping.
1.2    AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The aim of the study is to design and implement a web base application for sokoto state fire service.
The objectives of this study can be simplified as follows;
•    To design and implement a web base system to be easy to access at anytime they want any report
•    To    design    and    implement    a    web    base    system    to    provide adequate security for their document
•    To design and implement a web base system that will totally reduce paper work and produce database to keep their works intact.
•    Timely and quality report to managers for decisions making.
•    To monitor and observe the current status of environment through the report generated.
1.3    SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
This research work is most significant to Sokoto state fire service agent in helping them to carry out a report of fire disaster cases within the Sokoto state metropolis. It will help them to have access to their report fire service. It will assist the fire service department to be able to monitor and observe the current status of environment through their reports generated. It will also help them to have easy way to access their record anytime and anywhere they want any report.
Furthermore, it will help them provide adequate security for their document and to totally reduced paper work and keep their work intact.
1.4    SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The scope of this research work is strictly on the design of an online disaster report management system will be limited to the Sokoto state fire service.
1.5    LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
This study is limited to the body mentioned above;
1.    The System can not present a chart or statistically report on any incidence.
2.    It cannot render any services apart from fire disasters.
3.    The entire system is limited to Sokoto state fire service.
4.    The system is strictly a web base oriented system.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
1.    REPORT: An account given of a particular matter, especially in form of an official document, after thorough investigation or consideration by an appointed person or body.
2.    DISASTER: Is a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that exceed community’s or society’s ability to cope using its own resources.
3.    INTERNET: A global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.
4.    PHP:(Recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Pre-Processor) is a widely use open source general- purpose scripting language that is specially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.
5.    HTML: Hypertext Mark-up Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphics, and hyperlink effect on World Wide Web pages.
6.    SERVER:    A    specific    application    called    a    web    server    will    be responsible for communicating with the browser.
7.    WEB: this is an acronym of World Wide Web.
8.    WEBSITE:    A    website    is    a    collection    of    information    about    a particular topic or subject.
9.    WINDOWS: An operating system.
1.6    ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY
The research is aim to show the inefficiencies and the consequences of the manual report method that is still in use today in Sokoto state fire service, this project work is arranged into five chapters.
Chapter one introduced the work, which include the background of the study, statement of the problems, aims and objectives of the study, significance of the study, scope and limitation of the study, definition of some basic terms.
Chapter two treated the review of the related literatures. This chapter is where the related literature, related system and related tools is being reviewed.
Chapter three analyse the existing system, which include the analysis of the input, analysis of the output, system procedure, file maintain and human element involved in the existing system.
Chapter four design the new system, the new requirement, specification file to be maintain, program testing and the implementation.
Chapter five contain the conclusion of the project work