I read in Capt. Mike’s blog that the USFA had released it’s Provisional 2007 Firefighter Fatality Statistics.
Heart attacks and strokes were responsible for the deaths of 54 firefighters (47%) in 2007. That’s down from 51% in 2006.
It mirrors the Harvard study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, in March of 2007.The study showed an up to 100-fold increase in the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) events—such as heart attacks—for firefighters while engaged in emergency activities.
The researchers also found that 32 percent of CHD deaths among firefighters occur during fire suppression.
Next time we’ll determine what are your chances of heaving a heart attack in the next ten years.
..and then I’ll show you what to do about it.
