During the past several years there has been a concentrated effort throughout the United States fire service to reduce the number of "line of duty" deaths by initializing a program named "Everyone goes home".
Everyone thinks line of duty death as a firefighter dying while in an inflamed home saving a child etc. Two of the largest killers of firefighters are heart attacks and fire truck accidents.
This photo was shot at Shawnee Township, Ohio (Lima area). This week the fire crew was driving the 1990 Grumman Aerialcat ladder truck back from being serviced to the station when a pick up truck failed to stop at an intersection.
A major portion of the Everyone Goes Home program is the wearing of seat belts while riding in a fire truck, this is what saved the aerial driver's life even though he is in critical condition.
Thank you to Firefighters Close Calls for the information.
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