Subject to change based on USFA, news, department, and investigation information
Excludes non-traumatic deaths
7
Updated 30 April 2022. Total Number: 84
Advancing Hoselines (excluding Wildland): 7
6 January 2018: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
12 February 2018: Lawrenceburg, Tennessee
22 March 2018: York, Pennsylvania | York, Pennsylvania
22 March 2018: New York, New York
10 July 2018: Sun Prairie, Wisconsin *Initially listed as Advancing Hoselines, now Other.
23 July 2018: Howard County, Maryland
Search and Rescue: 0
Ventilation: 0
Multiple Fatality Incidents: 1
-Advancing Hoselines: 1
— York, Pennsylvania: Two killed in collapse
-Search and Rescue:
-Ventilation:
Advancing Hoselines: 7
Structure
-Residential: 4
– -Single-Family Dwelling: 3
– -Townhome/Rowhouse: 1
– -Apartment: 1
-Commercial: 3
–Under renovation into apartments: 2
–Bar: 1
– -Rural: 2
– -Suburban:
– -Urban: 4
Occupants (firefighter fatalities related to structure occupancy)
-Reported/Known: 1
– -Confirmed: 1
-Unknown:
Victim’s Company
-Unknown: 4
-Engine: 3
-Truck (including Quint or Engine acting as a Truck):
-Rescue (including Squad or Rescue Engine acting as Rescue Company):
– -Company Assignment
– – -First Due: 3
– – -Second Due: 1
– – -Other on Initial Alarm: 3
– – -Other on Later Alarm(s):
Cause of Death
-Caught/Trapped:
-Collapse: 5
–Interior: 5
—Roof: 1
—Floor: 4
—-Upper Floor: 3
—-Into Basement: 1
–Exterior:
Disoriented:
-Upper Floor:
-Basement:
-Unknown:
Lost: 1
Struck by: 1
Nature of Death
-Asphyxiation: 3
-Burns:
-Crushed: 2
-Other: 1
-Trauma: 1
-Unknown:
Search and Rescue:
Structure
-Residential:
–Single-Family Dwelling:
–Townhome/Rowhouse:
–Apartment:
–Institutional:
-Commercial:
–Furniture Store (abandoned):
–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):
-Unknown:
–Company Assignment:
—First Due:
—Second Due:
—Other on Initial Alarm:
—Other on Later Alarm(s):
Cause of Death
-Caught/Trapped:
-Collapse:
–Interior:
—Roof:
—Floor:
—-Upper Floor:
—-Into Basement:
–Stairway:
–Exterior:
Nature of Death
-Asphyxiation:
-Burns:
-Other:
-Trauma:
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:
Fall:
Nature of Death
-Trauma:
-Unknown:
Source:
United States Fire Administration
Local news reports
Fire department/investigation reports