Firefighter Safety

Paper Summary:

This paper addresses some of the issues and questions that have been raised about the safety of firefighters in wild-land fire situations, following the recent tragic deaths of five firefighters in southern California. It discusses some of the tools that firefighters working in wild-land fire environments are trained to use. It also discusses why some of these tools were not used in the California fire and how effective they are when they are used.

Table of Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
Background and Significance of This Paper
Literature Review
Procedures and Results
Discussions and Recommendations

From the Paper:

"The www.firehouse.com site cites statistics from the National Fire Protection Association; the NFPA gives14,900 as the number of fire department emergency vehicles that were involved in traffic accidents in 2001. The number of injuries suffered by firefighters driving their own vehicles that year was 1,325; and taken together, those two sets of accident numbers add up to 1,100 firefighter injuries that did not involve flames from the fires the firefighters were pursuing. "The statistics are alarming," the NFPA asserts, mentioning the 24 firefighters who were killed in 2001 "while responding to or returning from alarms"; 17 of those died in crashes."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Golway, Terry. (2005). Firefighters. American Heritage Magazine. Retrieved 1 Nov. 2006 from http://www.americanheritage.com.
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