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See History of fire brigades in the United Kingdom. During the period between 1941 and 1947, all fire brigades in Britain were amalgamated into the National Fire Service (NFS). [note 3] This totalled over 1,600 individual brigades. Some links that point to the NFS may actually link to the fire service that covers the present day geographical area.
The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war [a]) which relate to the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Isle of Man, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.
This list of people killed by law enforcement officers in the United Kingdom documents cases of people who died directly or indirectly because of the actions of British law enforcement officers, regardless of the manner of death, duty status of the officers, or if they acted officially or unofficially.
The list includes a firefighter who committed suicide in duty. Therefore the list is incomplete because there was a serving Station Officer in the then Dyfed Fire Brigade who in the 1980's while on duty returned home to his Fire Brigade provided house (as he was entitled to do so during his lunch break due to his duty roster conditions of ...
The list omits war-time deaths by enemy fire, such as the many police officers killed by air raids during the Second World War. [1] The list also omits the more than 300 officers of the former Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) killed in paramilitary assassinations or attacks during The Troubles. [2]
Sudden cardiac death has consistently constituted the largest share of on-duty firefighter deaths. [1] Of 2019 on-duty firefighter deaths in the U.S., 54% were due to medical emergencies, overexertion, or stress (included in this category were 22 heart attacks or other sudden cardiac deaths, 2 strokes, 1 heatstroke, and 1 suicide); 13% by fire ...
The death toll from a powerful explosion in the Dominican Republic this week rose to 25 on Wednesday, with firefighters still trying to extinguish the ongoing blaze, a high-ranking Civil Defense ...
1 death [5] factory 1988-12-12: Mexico City fireworks disaster: Mexico City: Mexico: 62+ deaths, up to 83 injuries: market 1989-03-22: Fengate fireworks factory explosion: Peterborough: United Kingdom: 1 firefighter death, over 100 injuries: factory [6] 1991-02-14: Culemborg fireworks disaster: Culemborg and Vianen: Netherlands: 2 deaths ...