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

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Updated 30 April 2022. Initial report done on 2 January 2020. Total Number: 62

Advancing Hoselines (excluding Wildland): 2
5 January 2019: Clinton, Iowa
5 March 2019: Godfrey, Illinois

Scene Safety: 1
16 September 2019: Farmington, Maine

Search and Rescue: 3
1 March 2019: Berwick, Maine
5 May 2019: Christopher, Illinois
13 November: Worcester, Massachusetts

Ventilation: 1
7 December 2019: Frisco, Colorado *USFA lists Activity Type: Advancing Hoselines

Multiple Fatality Incidents:
-Advancing Hoselines:
-Search and Rescue:
-Ventilation: 0

Advancing Hoselines: 2
Structure
-Residential: 1
– -Single-Family Dwelling: 1
– -Townhome/Rowhouse:
– -Apartment:
-Commercial: 1
–Silo: 1
– -Rural: 1
– -Suburban:
– -Urban:
Occupants (firefighter fatalities related to structure occupancy)
-Reported/Known:
– -Confirmed:
-Unknown: 1
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):
– -Company Assignment
– – -First Due:
– – -Second Due:
– – -Other on Initial Alarm: 1
– – -Other on Later Alarm(s): 1
Cause of Death
-Caught/Trapped: 1 (silo explosion)
-Collapse: 1
–Interior:
—Roof:
—Floor:
—-Upper Floor:
—-Into Basement:
–Exterior: 1
Disoriented:
-Upper Floor:
-Basement:
-Unknown:
Nature of Death
-Burns:
-Crushed: 1
-Trauma: 1
-Unknown:

Scene Safety: 1
Killed in explosion during gas leak investigation at a commercial structure.
*Initially listed Scene Safety
Activity Type: Unknown
Cause of Death: Struck by
Nature of Death: Trauma

Search and Rescue: 3
Structure
-Residential: 2
–Single-Family Dwelling:
–Townhome/Rowhouse:
–Apartment: 2
–Institutional:
-Commercial: 1
–Furniture Store (abandoned): 1
–Rural: 2
–Suburban:
–Urban: 1
Occupants (firefighter fatalities related to structure occupancy)
-Reported/Known: 2
–Confirmed:
-Unknown:
Victim’s Company
-Engine: 1
-Truck (including Quint or Engine acting as a Truck): 1
-Rescue (including Squad or Rescue Engine acting as Rescue Company):
-Unknown: 1
–Company Assignment:
—First Due: 2
—Second Due:
—Other on Initial Alarm: 1
—Other on Later Alarm(s):
Cause of Death
-Caught/Trapped: 2
-Collapse: 1
–Interior: 1
—Roof:
—Floor:
—-Upper Floor:
—-Into Basement:
–Stairway: 1
–Exterior:
Nature of Death
-Asphyxiation: 1
-Burns: 1
-Other: 1
-Trauma:

Ventilation: 1
Structure
-Residential: 1
–Single-Family Dwelling:
–Townhome/Rowhouse:
–Apartment: 1
-Commercial:
–Rural:
–Suburban: 1
–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): 1
-Rescue (including Squad or Rescue Engine acting as Rescue Company):
–Company Assignment:
—First Due: 1
—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: 1
Nature of Death
-Trauma: 1
-Unknown:

Source:
United States Fire Administration
Local news reports
Fire department/investigation reports