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Sunday, September 5, 2010

USFA:107 On-Duty Deaths in 2004

Despite continued advances in firefighting equipment, Incident Command System training, operations and safety training and improved communications, 107 U.S. firefighters died in the line of duty in 2004, a figure released today by the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency. “Our nation’s firefighters lost in the line of duty is heartbreakingly real, directly impacting their communities, their fire departments, their fellow firefighters – and especially the families they leave behind,” said Michael D. Brown, under secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response. “As President Bush has noted, these men and women are sacrificing daily for the security ...

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