Data – Page 14 – Data Not Drama

On-Duty Deaths Under Search, 2011 – 2016

2.5%, were firefighters who died while searching for life inside a burning structure.

You don’t normally assume a rearmount ladder truck is a privately owned vehicle, do you?

Four victims died due to burn injuries where penciling was being done by their nozzle team or the nozzle team of another engine company.

This writing looks at the moment the situation turned bad for the victim during his search.