From Kales et al., NEJM 2007: Cardiovascular events cause 45% of the on-duty deaths that occur in firefighters, compared to 22% of the on-duty deaths in police officers, 11% of the on-duty deaths in EMS workers, and 15% of the on-duty deaths in all otehr jobs. Hmm. EMS workers seem to do better. Could be because they’re always within arms reach of one of these.
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I heard about this on the radio today. I hadn’t realised quite how many firefighters were ‘volunteers’, something like 7 out of 8 [don’t quote me] It was their ’second’ job and most didn’t not have medical insurance, I think that may be pivotal.
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