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What is Killing Firefighters? A Study of Volunteer Firefighter Fatalities.

Krause, Robert C
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1563365156751977

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2019, Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Bowling Green State University, Leadership Studies.
Researchers at the University of Georgia, Kunadharaju, Smith, and DeJoy (2010), completed a study looking for patterns in firefighter fatalities and have identified four common factors which included under-resourcing, inadequate preparation for and anticipation of adverse events during operations, incomplete adoption of the incident command system or sub-optimal personnel readiness. The purpose of this study is to analyze 149 NIOSH volunteer firefighter fatality reports to determine if those fatalities could be linked to under-resourcing, inadequate preparation for adverse events during operations, incomplete adoption of the incident command system, or sub-optimal personnel readiness. Kunadharaju et al. (p. 1180, 2010) said in their article, Line-of-duty deaths among U.S. firefighters: An analysis of fatality investigations, “the underrepresentation of investigations involving volunteer firefighters deaths is a potentially significant issue, in that, the majority of firefighters in the U.S. are volunteers and the majority of line of duty deaths involve volunteer firefighters.” This research is meant to determine if Kunadharaju et al. were correct in their identification of four major factors: under-resourcing, inadequate preparation for and anticipation of adverse events during operations, incomplete adoption of the incident command system and sub-optimal personnel readiness. The focus of this study is to determine if volunteer firefighters were experiencing deaths within the areas of under-resourcing, inadequate preparation for adverse events during operations, incomplete adoption of the incident command procedures and sub-optimal personnel readiness but also what additional factors were contributing to volunteer firefighter deaths not specifically addressed in the initial study.
Paul Johnson, PhD (Advisor)
Molly Gardner, PhD (Other)
Shirley Green, PhD (Committee Member)
Judy May, PhD (Committee Member)
Patrick Pauken, PhD (Committee Member)
211 p.
Educational Leadership
firefighter safety; rapid intervention teams; rapid fire progression; apparatus crashs; fire ground ground operations; safety officer; fire safety; fire leadership; firefighting policy; company officer; technical rescue; firefighter training; wildland fir

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  • Krause, R. C. (2019). What is Killing Firefighters? A Study of Volunteer Firefighter Fatalities. [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1563365156751977

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Krause, Robert. What is Killing Firefighters? A Study of Volunteer Firefighter Fatalities. 2019. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1563365156751977.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Krause, Robert. "What is Killing Firefighters? A Study of Volunteer Firefighter Fatalities." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1563365156751977

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