Statistics
In 2009, 90 line of duties deaths were recorded amongst fire fighters in the United States of America; 47 being volunteers, 36 being careers, and 7 being a part of a wild land agency. In 2009, 16 firefighters passed in trying to fight wild land fires- which is how the five men from Linton died. Not only fire-fighters die because of fires. In 2009, a total of 3,010 civilians died as fire as the cause. There was also a calculated 1.3 million fires that occurred in 2009 which resulted in $12.5 billion in direct property loss. In 2009, there were a total of 78,792 wildfires which burnt down an estimate of 5,921,786 acres (23,964.62 km2). Although most would believe in line of duty deaths would be the number one cause of deaths to fire-fighters, heart attack is the most common. Even though International Fire Fighters Day stresses those who died in the line of duty, it is also to remember the others who gave their time as well.
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Famous quotes containing the word statistics:
“We ask for no statistics of the killed,
For nothing political impinges on
This single casualty, or all those gone,
Missing or healing, sinking or dispersed,
Hundreds of thousands counted, millions lost.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“and Olaf, too
preponderatingly because
unless statistics lie he was
more brave than me: more blond than you.”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)