NFPA collects fire experience data from thousands of U.S. fire departments

Posted by on Mar 19, 2013 in Educators, fire dollar losses, fire fatalities, fire injuries, Fire service, fire statistics, NFPA fire experience survey, region fire department calls, Research |

Each year, NFPA’s Fire Analysis and Research group sends out a fire experience survey to over 20,000 U.S. fire departments protecting larger communities with populations of 50,000 or more, and to a sample of departments protecting smaller communities to collect data on their fire experience. Now through the end of May, the survey forms will be collected by mail and e-mail, and the results will produce estimates on the overall fire problem in the U.S. Statistics on the number of fires and associated losses, fire department calls, data by region and community size, as well information on firefighter injuries...

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