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.
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.