Statistic study on sacrifices of firefighters in China

摘要

Firefighters always have high risk of sacrifices, because of the varied and complex environments of firefighting and emergency rescue they worked in. In this paper, we perform the investigation of sacrifices of firefighters in China. We focus on the cases involving firefighters' deaths from 1998 to 2010, and select 88 cases involving 123 firefighters' deaths stochastically to analyze the ages, types on duty, times and seasons of the dead firefighters, respectively. The ACCESS database software is used to make tables and figures in the paper. According to the statistic results, it is found that negligence, construction collapse, lack of protection, lack of experiences and technical skill faults are the primary reasons for deaths of firefighters. In order to reduce the deaths and injuries of firefighters, some suggestions are given, including to enhance the personal protection, to promote the ability of setting up reconnaissance, to obey the procedure of firefighting strictly, to strengthen the review of firefighting, to pay more attention to safety education, and to promote the abilities of fire commanders.