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Sublette County Firefighters would like to advise residents of Sublette County that when burning refuge or fields on your property, before you burn please call the Sheriff's Office(367-4378). Then please call them when you are done burning. This prevents unnecessary dispatch of emergency personel to that location because of observers misunderstanding the situation.

Firefighters (2009)

Estimated number of firefighters in 2009: 1,148,100 (career: 335,950, volunteer: 812,150)
Firefighters by age group: 16-19 (3%), 20-29 (21%), 30-39 (28%), 40-49 (26%), 50-59 (16%), 60 and over (6%)
Seventy-three percent of career firefighters are in communities that protect a population of 25,000 or more.
Ninety-five percent of the volunteers are in departments that protect a population of less than 25,000 and more than 50% are located in small, rural departments that protect a population of less than 2,500.

Source: National Fire Protection Association, U.S. Fire Department Profile Through 2009

Novelty and toylike lighters are linked to incidents of deaths, injuries, and property loss across the Nation. For decades the fire service and caregivers have taught children to avoid lighters and that they are tools, not toys. But children are attracted to novelty lighters because they look like toys such as animals, miniature cars, mobile phones, doll accessories, fishing lures, stacks of coins, markers, and cameras. It is nearly impossible for a child, and oftentimes an adult, to distinguish between what is a toy and what is a lighter. Unfortunately, this contributes to the disturbing statistics related to children and fire:

Thirty-seven percent of fires were started by juveniles aged 10—17 where age was cited as a factor in a fire’s ignition by lighters or matches.
Children under the age of 5 are more than 8 times as likely to die in a fire caused by playing with a heat source than are people of all ages.
Fires started by “playing” cause 38% of civilian fire deaths. Nineteen percent of these fire starters were 4 year olds.

Each year more than half a million winter fires cause $3Billion in property loss, 1900 deaths, and nearly 8,000 injuries - US Fire Administration

During 2004, an estimated 17,200 home structure fires started by candles were reported to local fire departments. These fires resulted in an estimated 200 civilian deaths, 1,540 civilian injuries and an estimated direct property loss of $200 million. Homes include dwellings, duplexes, manufactured housing and apartments - NFPA

U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated 1,602,000 fires. These fires resulted in 3,675 civilian fire fatalities, 17,925 civilian fire injuries and an estimated $10,672,000,000 in direct property loss. There was a civilian fire death every 143 minutes and a civilian fire injury every 29 minutes in 2005. - NFPA

FireSafety.gov - safety information for the home.

FEMA

National Interagnecy Fire Center - wildand fire information for the nation

Everyonegoeshome.com - firefighter life safety

Line-of-Duty Deaths Honored by NFFF

2010 LODDs: 72
2009 LODDs: 80
2008 LODDs: 120
2007 LODDs: 114
2006 LODDs: 82
2005 LODDs: 105
2004 LODDs: 99
2003 LODDs: 108

National FIre Protection Association(NFPA)

Sparky the Fire Dog - fun fire safety for the kids

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