Firefighters - Engines of Community Safety

Firefighters: Engines of i Community Safety Of the more than FIREFIGHTERS ARE Of the more than 30,000 U.S. 1 million firefighters OFTEN THE FIRST LINE fire departments OF DEFENSE FOR COMMUNITY EMERGENCIES It takes an extraordinary 70% person to put themselves in harm's way to help 20,000- others at a moment's are volunteers are all volunteer notice. Vitally important yet vastly underfunded, fire departments are critical to keeping communities safe. Services contributed Small communities are typically by volunteer firefighters save protected by all-volunteer U.S. localities an estimated departments $129.7 B per year populations under 10,000 National Fire Protection Association THE COST TO TRAIN & EQUIP A FIREFIGHTER IS MORE THAN Ca $27,000 HELMET $225 RADIO НOOD $3,700 $40 25 COAT $1,200 GLOVES SCBA $95 $4,300 PANTS $900 THERMAL IMAGER $8,600 TRAINING $7,800 BOOTS $235 FIREFIGHTING & EMERGENCY MEDICAL EQUIPMENT IS VERY EXPENSIVE FROM FROM FROM FROM $150.000 - $400,000 $80,000 $10.000 TO TO TO TO $400,000 $750,000 $150,000 $30.000 ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT FIRE PUMPER LADDER TRUCK AMBULANCE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT Congressional Fire Services Institute FIRE-RELATED FACTS Every 23 84% 82% seconds a fire department responds to of all fire deaths & of all fire injuries a fire somewhere in the U.S. occur in residential buildings In a single year 386,000 3,005 17,500 $11.7 BILLION home fires deaths injuries property damage National Fire Protection Association (2011 survey) SINCE 2006, GEORGIA-PACIFIC BUCKET BRIGADETM HAS: Contributed more than Awarded grants in Supported more than $1 MILLION to fire departments 28 130 through cash grants, safety education materials & National Volunteer Fire U.S. states & in Canada fire departments with Council memberships in locations where cash grants the company operates GP Georgia-Pacific GEORGIA-PACIFIC BUCKET BRIGADE™M is inspired by the efforts of firefighters, including the many Georgia-Pacific employees serving their communities as volunteer firefighters. www.gpbucketbrigade.com SOURCES National Volunteer Fire Council unless otherwise noted.