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Of the 48 on-duty deaths in 2019, 20 were career firefighters and 25 were volunteer firefighters, one was a civilian Defense Department employee, one was a state land management employee, and one was a federal land management agency employee. [1] Sudden cardiac death has consistently constituted the largest share of on-duty firefighter deaths. [1]
Line of duty death; List of the deadliest firefighter disasters in the United States ... List of firefighters killed in the line of duty in the United States.
Below is a list of the deadliest firefighter disasters in the United States, in which more than five firefighters died. "Firefighter" is defined as a professional trained to fight fires. Hence the 1933 Griffith Park fire is excluded, as it killed 29 untrained civilians.
Last weekend, the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial honored both Varin and Robert Gardner, a Richmond-Carolina Fire District firefighter, among a group of 89 firefighters who died in the line ...
This year's national tribute will honor 89 firefighters who died in the line of duty in 2023 and 137 firefighters who died in previous years. Seventeen firefighters from ... Fallen firefighters ...
The firefighters’ station in rural Saluda County promised to “take it from here” as the ... the first two firefighters in the history of the department to be lost in the line of duty.
It performs independent investigations of firefighter fatalities in the United States, also referred to as line of duty deaths (LODD). The programs goals are: to better define the characteristics of line of duty deaths among firefighters; to develop recommendations for the prevention of deaths and injuries
Jeff Lyons, a safety and training officer with Asheville Fire Department, died in 2022 after battling cancer. The North Carolina Industrial Commission ruled his death a line of duty death.