- Author
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Title
- Firefighter Fatalities in the United States in 2006.
- Coporate
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC
- Keywords
- fire fighters | fire fatalities | fire statistics | fire departments | fire safety | injuries | burns (injuries) | survivors | death | fire fighting | life safety | occupational hazards | occupational safety
- Abstract
- This report continues a series of annual studies by the USFA of onduty firefighter fatalities in the United States. The USFA is the single public agency source of information for all onduty firefighter fatalities in the United States each year. This information is in the public domain and may be accessed on the USFA Web site at www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/fatalities/. The unique and specific objective of this study is to identify all onduty firefighter fatalities that occurred in the United States and its protectorates in 2006, and to present in summary form the circumstances surrounding each occurrence. The study is intended to help identify approaches that could reduce the number of firefighter deaths in future years. In addition to the 2006 overall findings, this study includes information on the hazards to firefighters presented by engineered lumber when it is exposed to fire conditions. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program (www.cdc.gov/niosh/fire/) is also a unique and critically valuable counterpart to the comprehensive annual USFA study, reporting on indepth investigative findings for individual firefighter fatality incidents. The National Fallen Firefighter Foundation maintains the list of firefighters who die in the line-of-duty and are honored during the annual National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend. The names of these firefighters are commemorated on a plaque that is permanently installed at the National Fallen Firefighter Memorial in Emmitsburg, Maryland. A list of the firefighters being honored for 2006 (a total of 91) can be found in Appendix D.