Victim Survivability Profiling may spare firefighters immediate risk, but it can leave behind lasting moral injury, especially when the decision not to search proves fatally wrong
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The Risk of Assumption: Rethinking Victim Survivability Profiling in Firefighting
The data doesn’t lie: most firefighter deaths aren’t from interior searches, and civilians survive in conditions VSP might dismiss
Jaws, Firefighters and the Fear We Feed
Just because it’s vivid doesn’t mean it’s typical. And just because it’s feared doesn’t mean it’s true.
2024 Report: Interior Deaths
The number of interior line of duty deaths in 2024 is the second-lowest number on record. The lowest is one in 2017.
Data Not Drama 