Sentence examples for firefighter death from inspiring English sources

It was the first firefighter death in a series of fires that have killed at least 17 other people.

"My long-term goal is to make a big dent in firefighter death statistics," Savacool said.

6 26 p.m.: This article has been updated with the firefighter death toll rising to 17, dozens of people missing, other details.

Chief White said that his members were particularly devastated by the firefighter deaths on Sept. 11.

Stephen Marsar found that line-of-duty firefighter deaths in New York — excluding Sept. 11, 2001 — overwhelmingly occur in structural fires with no other loss of life.

His death came during a rash of firefighter deaths in the city; it was the 9th of 11 in a two-year period.

Yet more than a third of the 343 firefighter deaths were in the north tower, even though it stood 29 minutes longer.

Firefighter deaths aside -- and leaving out the World Trade Center disaster -- 101 New Yorkers died in fires in 2001, the lowest figure in decades.

For example, in a study of 1,144 firefighter deaths between 1994 and 2004, the New England Journal of Medicine found that 45percentt of them were from "cardiovascular events".

The Fire Museum in New York, for example, does not chronicle blunders that might have led to firefighter deaths, nor does the Transit Museum catalog fatal subway accidents.

But while police and firefighter deaths make the news, neither job is among the most fatal, the Bureau of Labor Statistics BLSS) reports--at least not in a normal year.