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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.
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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.
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