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
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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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