- Author
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NFPA Journal
- Title
- U.S. Firefighter Injuries, 1996.
- Journal
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NFPA Journal,
Vol. 91,
No. 6,
66-77,
November/December 1997
- Keywords
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fire statistics
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injuries
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fire fighters
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case histories
- Identifiers
- firefighter injuries at the fireground and at nonfire emergencies, 1987-1996; firefighter injuries by nature of injury and type of duty, 1996; definition of terms; overview of 1996 firefighter injuries; fire department vehicle accidents and resulting firefighter injuries while responding to or returning from incidents, 1996; average number of firefighter injuries and injuries requiring hospitalization per department, by population of community protected for all types of duty, 1996; average number of fires, fireground injuries, and injury rates by population of community protected, 1996; average number of fires and fireground injuries per department and injuries per 100 fires, by populaiton of community and region, 1996; total firefighter injuries by year, 1987-1996; firefighter injuries by type of duty 1996; fireground injuries by cause, 1996; how we got our data