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FIRE FIGHTER FATALITY INVESTIGATION AND PREVENTION

Fire Fighters spraying water on massive fire

The United States depends on about 1.1 million fire fighters to protect its citizens and property from fire. Approximately 336,000 are career fire fighters, 812,000 are volunteers, and 80 to 100 die in the line of duty each year.

To address this occupational hazard, the NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program conducts independent investigations of fire fighter line-of-duty deaths.

What's New

Safety Tip

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Phase in a mandatory comprehensive wellness and fitness program for fire fighters.

Contact FFFIPP

Tim Merinar, MS
Fatality Investigations Team
Division of Safety Research
NIOSH
trm2@cdc.gov

Press Inquiries
Nura Sadeghpour:
uvg2@cdc.gov
Fred Blosser:
fbb0@cdc.gov

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