YEAR-TO-DATE SUMMARY STATISTICS (PROVISIONAL) ON-DUTY FIREFIGHTER FATALITIES IN THE UNITED STATES
Date Range 1/1/2010 to 12/31/2010

   

Number of On-Duty Firefighter Fatalities: 85
Count of Hometown Heroes: 15

Classification:

55 Volunteer 64.7%
28 Career 32.9%
1 Wildland Full-Time 1.17%
1 Paid-on-Call 1.17%

Number of Multiple Firefighter Fatality Incidents: 4
Number of Firefighter Fatalities Associated with Wildland Incidents: 9

Type of Duty:

20 On-Scene Fire 23.5%
19 Other On-Duty 22.3%
16 Responding 18.8%
16 After 18.8%
7 Training 8.23%
4 On-Scene Non-Fire 4.70%
1 Returning 1.17%
1 Other 1.17%
1 Unknown 1.17%

Percent of Fatalities Related to Emergency Duty: 48.2 Number of firefighter fatalities associated with Suspicious/Incendiary incidents: 0

Type of Incident:

41 Not Incident Related 48.2%
20 Structure Fire 23.5%
8 Wildland 9.41%
5 Other 5.88%
3 MVA 3.52%
3 Rescue/Extrication 3.52%
3 Unknown 3.52%
1 EMS 1.17%
1 Tech Rescue 1.17%

   

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