Subject to change based on USFA, news, department, and investigation information
Excludes non-traumatic deaths

6

As of 1 February 2023. Total number 92.

Advancing Hoselines (excluding Wildland): 2
30 April: Pineville, NC (NIOSH report)
24 September: Wilmington, DE (NIOSH report) (incident audio) (see * re: Activity Type)

Search and Rescue: 2
24 September: Wilmington, DE | Wilmington, DE (incident occurred in September, death in December) (NIOSH report) (incident audio)

Ventilation: 0

Incident Command: 2
13 January: Fremont County, WY *incident occurred in 2015, death in 2016.
27 September: Bronx, NY (incident audio)

Multiple Fatality Incidents: 1
One incident claimed three firefighters. One is listed as Advancing Hoselines and the others as Search and Rescue.

Advancing Hoselines: 2
Structure
-Residential: 1
– -Single-Family Dwelling:
– -Duplex:
– -Townhome/Rowhouse: 1
– -Apartment:
– – -Abandoned:
-Commercial: 1
– – Strip mall: 1
– Rural: 1
– Suburban:
– Urban:
Occupants (firefighter fatalities related to structure occupancy)
-Reported/Known: 1*
– -Confirmed Inside:
Outside Upon Arrival: 1 ( * DE: reported possible, confirmed out later)
-Unknown:
Victim’s Company
-Unknown:
-Engine: 1
-Truck (including Quint or Engine acting as a Truck):
-Rescue (including Squad or Rescue Engine acting as Rescue Company): 1
– -Company Assignment
– – -First Due: 2
– – -Second Due:
– – -Other on Initial Alarm:
– – -Other on Later Alarm(s):
Cause of Death
-Caught/Trapped:
-Collapse: 1
–Interior: 1
—Roof:
—Floor: 1
—-Upper Floor:
—-Into Basement: 1
—Ceiling:
–Exterior:
Disoriented/Lost: 1
– Main/Only floor: 1
-Upper Floor:
-Basement:
-Unknown:
Nature of Death
-Asphyxiation: 2
-Burns:
-Crushed:
-Trauma:
-Unknown:

Search and Rescue: 2
Structure
-Residential: 2
–Single-Family Dwelling:
–Townhome/Rowhouse: 2
–Apartment:
–Institutional:
-Commercial:
–Rural:
–Suburban:
–Urban:
Occupants (firefighter fatalities related to structure occupancy)
-Reported/Known: 2*
–Confirmed:
Outside Upon Arrival: 2 ( * DE: reported possible, confirmed out later)
-Unknown:
Victim’s Company
-Engine:
-Truck (including Quint or Engine acting as a Truck): 1
-Rescue (including Squad or Rescue Engine acting as Rescue Company): 1
–Company Assignment:
—First Due: 2
—Second Due:
—Other on Initial Alarm:
—Other on Later Alarm(s):
Cause of Death
-Caught/Trapped:
-Collapse: 2
–Interior: 2
—Roof:
—Floor: 2
—-Upper Floor:
—-Into Basement: 2
–Exterior:
Nature of Death
-Asphyxiation: 1 (* Nature of Death omitted for Delaware firefighter)
-Trauma:

Incident Command: 2
Cause of Death
-Collapse: 1 (fell through the ground-level roof of a farm cellar)
-Struck By: (debris from natural gas explosion at a residential structure)
Nature of Death
-Burns: 1
-Trauma: 1

Ventilation:
Structure
-Residential:
–Single-Family Dwelling:
–Townhome/Rowhouse:
–Apartment:
-Commercial:
–Rural:
–Suburban:
–Urban:
Occupants (firefighter fatalities related to structure occupancy)
-Reported/Known:
–Confirmed:
-Unknown:
Victim’s Company
-Engine:
-Truck (including Quint or Engine acting as a Truck):
-Rescue (including Squad or Rescue Engine acting as Rescue Company):
–Company Assignment:
—First Due:
—Second Due:
—Other on Initial Alarm:
—Other on Later Alarm(s):
Cause of Death
-Collapse:
–Interior:
—Roof:
—Floor:
—-Upper Floor:
—-Into Basement:
–Exterior:
Disoriented:
-Upper Floor:
-Basement:
Nature of Death
-Trauma:
-Unknown: