Approximately 800,000 firefighters in the United States are volunteer firefighters and 300,000 are career firefighters. Volunteer firefighters primarily serve communities with fewer than 25,000 inhabitants, whereas most career firefighters serve communities of more than 25,000 persons. To characterize fatalities among volunteer and career firefighters, CDC analyzed data from the U.S. Fire Admin...

OBJECTIVE Obesity, despite being a significant determinant of fitness for duty, is reaching epidemic levels in the workplace. Firefighters' fitness is important to their health and to public safety. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES We examined the distribution of BMI and its association with major cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in Massachusetts firefighters who underwent baseline (1...

firefighting is extremely strenuous and physically demanding work and involves ability to cope with emergency life-or-death situations. because of the high physical demands of firefighting, successful job performance and minimizing of morbidity and mortality depends on fitness for duty. the firefighting department of tehran does not perform periodic medical assessment for firefighters. the aim ...

Firefighting is dangerous work. Each year, approximately 80,000 firefighters are injured and about 100 firefighters lose their lives in the line of duty. Firefighters face multiple dangers in the course of their work; they encounter toxic fumes, dangerous products of combustion, high radiant heat loads, and a chaotic work environment. Despite the myriad dangers, the leading cause of line-of-dut...

Approximately 800,000 firefighters in the United States are volunteer firefighters and 300,000 are career firefighters. Volunteer firefighters primarily serve communities with fewer than 25,000 inhabitants, whereas most career firefighters serve communities of more than 25,000 persons. To characterize fatalities among volunteer and career firefighters, CDC analyzed data from the U.S. Fire Admin...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to estimate the cause-specific mortality in male emergency responders (ER), compare with that of Korean men. Mortality was also compared between more experienced firefighters (i.e., firefighters employed ≥ 20 years and firefighters employed ≥ 10 to < 20 years) and less experienced firefighters and non-firefighters (i.e., firefighters employed < 10 years and no...

OBJECTIVE The etiology of sarcoidosis is unknown, but epidemiology suggests that environmental agents are a factor. Because firefighters are exposed to numerous toxins, we questioned whether sarcoidosis was increased in this cohort. SETTING The New York City Fire Department (FDNY), employing > 11,000 firefighters and nearly 3,000 emergency medical services (EMS) health-care workers (HCWs). ...

A fire breaks out on a graph and f firefighters protect f vertices. At each subsequent time step the fire spreads to all adjacent unprotected vertices and firefighters protect f unburned (and unprotected) vertices. On the strong grid, three firefighters cannot restrict the fire to one quadrant, but four firefighters suffice to contain the fire. Further, if the strong grid goes unprotected to ti...

INTRODUCTION National guidelines state that health care professionals (HCPs) should advise patients on the importance of maintaining a healthy weight. Firefighters have high rates of obesity, and cardiovascular events are the leading cause of line-of-duty deaths in firefighters. This study assessed the association of age and body mass index (BMI) with HCP weight recommendations among male firef...