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2024 Year End Infographic: Wildland Fire Fatalities

The 2024 Year End Infographic is out, distilling common themes and lessons from over 200 incidents the Lessons Learned Center received in 2024. Over the next several weeks this blog will feature sections of the Infographic and provide links to many of the incidents that are referenced in it.

The first post in this Infographic series will cover 2024 fatality incidents. 

11 Fatalities in 2024

In 2024, we lost 11 firefighters across the United States, the fewest since 2019 (nine fatalities). Those people we lost include federal, state and local firefighters, as well as three airtanker pilots in three separate aviation accidents. Of particular note, a federal agency (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) categorized a fatality from an occupational cancer as a line of duty death. 

To learn more about the 11 incidents that led to a firefighter fatality, follow the links below, listed in chronological order. 

Glendale Fire Department Medical Emergency Fatality

Virginia Department of Forestry Medical Emergency Fatality

Montana State DNRC Medical Emergency Fatality

LaCrosse Volunteer Fire Department Medical Emergency Fatality

Capitan SEAT Accident Fatality

Fremont-Winema National Forest Medical Emergency Fatality

Horse Gulch Fire Fixed Wing Accident Fatality

Falls Fire SEAT Crash Fatality

Hawthorne Fire UTV Accident Fatality

Sterling Forest State Park Hit by Tree Fatality

US Fish and Wildlife Service Medical Line of Duty Death 

 

Follow the links, learn from our fallen brothers and sisters.