NFPA 1710: THE NEW 'ACCOUNTABILITY' STANDARD

摘要

For all the perceived advances in the fire service, the firefighter of today is no less likely to be killed or injured in a structure fire than he was 25 years ago. And the American citizen is far more likely to be killed or injured in a structure fire in 2001 than he or she was in 1977.rnMore firefighters are killed each year on the fireground than in any other type of duty. Sixty-two percent of line-of-duty deaths in 2000 were either on the fireground or "responding to/returning from," with fireground deaths by far the majority. Fifty-seven percent of all line-of-duty deaths were non-heart attack or non-stress-related. And the line-of-duty death trend for firefighters in both the career and volunteer sectors has spiked dramatically since 1992.rnIt's not hard to see why, in the most critical ways, firefighters are no better off now than they were in 1977.