This report looks at firefighter injuries sustained at, responding to or returning from a fire incident, using data reported to the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS).
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This report addresses the characteristics of home heating fires caused by central heating units, fixed or portable local heating units, fireplaces, heating stoves, chimneys, and water heaters.
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Learn about the five basic steps to create or enhance a fire safety education program for your community, including how to develop tools that will help you assess program effectiveness.
Download the toolkit. PDF 7 MB
Consumers will often use any available container to collect and store fuel. This Coffee Break Training bulletin will help you to identify maximum allowable flammable and combustible liquid container sizes.
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Help prepare your community for hazards like wildfires and winter storms by participating in National PrepareAthon! Day.
Visit the PrepareAthon! website for activity ideas and strategies to promote your day of action.
Image courtesy of http://coclouds.com/license-information/The Executive Fire Officer Program (EFOP) provides senior fire officers with a broad perspective on various facets of fire and emergency services administration. The EFOP curriculum and research framework examines how senior authority figures can exercise leadership when dealing with difficult, adaptive problems within their jurisdictions. Learn more about the EFOP.
Apply by June 15Fire Is Everyone’s Fight™ is a national effort led by the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) to lower the number of home fires and home fire injuries in America. Along with USFA and partner organizations across the country, the fire community is speaking out with a unified message of fire prevention and safety to the public. The goal is to change how people think about fire and fire prevention using social marketing strategies to address the broadest possible audience.
Learn how you can join Fire Is Everyone’s FightRecent releases from USFA
USFA Strategic Plan 2014-2018 PDF 2.1 MB
Coffee Break Training: Medical Components of the Incident Command System: Treatment Unit Leader PDF 146 KB
February 19 Critical Infrastructure Protection InfoGram
Firefighter Fatalities in the United States in 2013
Executive Fire Officer Program 2013 Outstanding Research Award projects
USFA has recently received notice of the following firefighter fatalities:
14 on-duty fatalities reported in 2015.
87 on-duty fatalities reported in 2014.
home fire fatalities reported in 2015.
64 home fire fatalities were reported by the U.S. news media for Feb. 15-21.
compared to fatalities reported as of Feb. 21, 2014.
Older adults (65 and over) represent 29 percent of all fatalities.
Ohio leads the nation in reported fatalities with 37.
Improved structure firefighting gloves in 100 seconds http://youtu.be/kXD0Gl1xso4 — Feb. 24 via @dhsscitech
