Rescue-Related Fatalities, 1994 Today

Jun 1, 2004 12:00 PM

Rescue is a dangerous business. For the types of incidents resulting in firefighter fatalities, motor vehicle crashes account for more than 40%, and water rescue accounts for 15%.

Heart attack/stroke (including one seizure)	42
Crashes responding to/returning from motor vehicle crashes (3 in helicopter crash transporting patient from vehicle crash)	18
Struck by vehicles at motor vehicle crashes	21
Water/dive-rescue incidents (7 at dive-rescue training)	16
Confined-space rescue	3
Electrocution at motor vehicle crash	3
Shot at motor vehicle crash	1
Falls from apparatus at or responding to rescues	2
Total	106
Source: USFA's Firefighter Fatalities in the United States and summary reports for 2003 and 2004

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