Chapter #10 Flashcards
A report published in March 2004 by RAND Worldwide stated that fire and emergency responder injuries during emergency operations in the US amounted to approximately ____ incidents, half of the total fire and emergency responder injuries reported per year.
88,000
____ is the leading cause of firefighter fatalities while overexertion or stress that results in heart attacks and strokes is the leading cause of firefighting injury.
Cardiac arrest
Of these ____ injuries were potentially life-threatening.
2000
According to information provided by the US fire administration in January 2006, ____ firefighters died during 2005 while on duty compared to 117 firefighters who died in 2004. Since 1977 the trend indicates a fluctuation from high in 1978 (171) to low in 1992 (77). Between 2000 and 2006 the average has been ____ lives lost per year.
106
107
The two leading causes of fatalities to firefighters are the result of ____ and ____ resulting from physical stress.
Motor vehicle
Heart attacks
In 2005 stress-related fatalities were at the highest level in over 10 years, accounting for ____ percent of all line of duty debts.
40%
Emergency incident fatalities accounted for ____ percent of the fatalities since 1977.
20%
In many fire and emergency services organizations, EMS responses account for between 50 and 80% of emergency response volume. These incidents result in only ___ percent of firefighter fatalities.
3%
Trauma accounts for the deaths of 50% of firefighters who were involved in EMS operations at the time of their fatal injuries, another ____ percent involved in EMS operations died from heart attacks.
38%
Nonemergency in 2004 ____ firefighters were killed in these types of accidents. Tragically many of these occurred during training evolutions.
37
Between 1987 and 2003 training related injuries increased by nearly 21%. Approximately ____ injuries occurred in 2001 training exercises.
7000
Heart attacks and strokes only constituted ____ percent of the training related injuries reported in May 2003 by USFA.
1
Training related fatalities, which are about ____ percent of all and will firefighter LODD have risen in recent years.
10
The summit in 2004 resulted in the development of strategic initiatives that will be undertaken in an effort to meet the following goals.
Reduce firefighter fatalities by 25% over the next five years
Reduce firefighter fatalities by 50% over the next 10 years
The resulting initiative can be condensed into 16 objectives that have been titled ____.
Everybody goes home
