NFPA Journal - Winter 2024 - 77
Eleven firefighters were
injured in a fire at a
commercial property
in Los Angeles in 2020.
A new NFPA report
estimates that municipal
firefighters in the U.S.
experienced an annual
average of 21,955 nonfatal
fireground injuries
from 2018 to 2022.
The most common injury symptom
experienced by firefighters was smoke
inhalation (25 percent), followed by sprain
or strain injuries (21 percent). Firefighters
also experienced different forms of physical
trauma, including thermal burns, cuts
or lacerations, contusions or bruises, fractures,
and swelling injuries. Firefighters
also experienced a variety of symptoms
influenced by the physical demands of
their work tasks, the environmental conditions
in which they were working, or
their own personal conditioning, such as
exhaustion or fatigue, dizziness, fainting
or weakness, breathing difficulties, or cardiac
symptoms.
Factors relating to fire development
(such as smoke conditions or explosions)
contributed to more than two in five
injuries (46 percent), while slippery or
uneven surfaces contributed to another
20 percent of injuries.
The data from this report is derived
from the U.S. Fire Administration's
National Fire Incident Reporting System
(NFIRS) in conjunction with the annual
fire experience survey administered
by NFPA. The data in this report is an
estimate of firefighter injuries from
fires reported to U.S. municipal fire
departments, and as a result it excludes
firefighter injuries reported only to state
or federal agencies or to industrial fire
brigades. Fatal firefighter injuries are
detailed in a separate NFPA report available
at nfpa.org/firefighterfatalities.
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