Originally Posted by
Typhoon Tripacer
That statistic really got me interested. Checking the UK statistics there were 66 UK fire fighter fatalities between 1986 and 2014. Let’s say 2.4 per year. In the same period in the USA there were 3211 fire fighter deaths (inc. 340 fire fighters at the World Trade Centre) so about 115 per year. As the population of the UK is very approximately 4 times less than USA the statistic seems to stand up, at least as far as the UK rather than EU is concerned.
I suspect that the US stats include wild/forrest fire crew's, which is a whole different risk profile than your typical UK fire incident.