- Author
- Fire Engineering
- Title
- Fallen Firefighters of 2001 Remembered.
- Journal
- Fire Engineering, Vol. 155, No. 12, 40-43, December 2002
- Keywords
- fire fighters | death | fire statistics | health hazards | self contained breathing apparatus | respirators | decontamination | hazardous materials
- Identifiers
- heart attack leading cause of death for fire fighters; Safety Equipment Institute (SEI) certifies SCBA respirators to new NFPA criteria; NFPA: fire deaths in homes droped more than 9 percent in 2001; NIST/USFA offer information on basic decontamination