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U.S. firefighter fatalities in 2018
Eighty-two firefighters died while on duty, five less than the 2017 total of 87.
Plan and Practice Your Escape™
Outreach materials and social media messages to share with your community
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Eighty-two firefighters died while on duty, five less than the 2017 total of 87.
Topical Fire Report
The risk of death or injury from fire is not the same for everyone. This report explores fire risk for people living in the United States and why for some groups of people, fire risk is more severe.
Current Events and Issues
A recent survey shows that many in your community probably don't understand the life-threatening risks from heat and toxic smoke produced in a modern home fire.
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Recent research from The Network for Public Health Law found no cases in which the courts — at any level — held fire departments liable for damage or injury associated with smoke alarm installation in non-public housing.
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ResponderSafety.com offers 10 free teaching packages for instructors on a variety of road safety and traffic incident management topics.
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A recent study involving fire departments in Florida examined how organizational factors can influence the implementation of firefighter cancer screening and other occupational safety and health activities.
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A three-part underground robotic competition is helping the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to find new mapping and search technologies for first responders and the military.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has outlined how new and existing technologies can improve operational capabilities and incident response to save lives in wildland urban interface (WUI) fires.
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Statistics
There are dozens of ways you can use Fire Is Everyone’s Fight to help teach people in your city or town to be safe from fire. Join the fight for a few ideas to get you started.
Down 18% compared to fatalities reported from Jan. 1 – Oct. 5, 2018.
21 home fire fatalities were reported by the U.S. news media for Sept. 29 – Oct. 5, 2019.
Older adults (65 and over) represent 27% of all fatalities.
New York leads the nation in reported fatalities with 87.
Share this video with your community to show residents how to increase the chance of surviving a home fire by more than 82% and decreasing fire damage by up to 97%.