Originally Posted by
ion_berkley
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.
Also of note - according to the official figures from gov.uk, of that number of 66 only 31 were "Whilst attending incidents". Of the remainder 5 were during training and 30 were "natural causes or other" whilst on duty. For what they do, UK firefighters have remarkably low "on the job" fatality figures.