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Estimated number of firefighters in 2007: 1,148,800 (career: 323,350, volunteer: 825,450)
Firefighters by age group: 16-19 (3.5%), 20-29 (21.4%), 30-39 (28.2%), 40-49 (25.9%), 50-59 (15.4%), 60 and over (5.5%)
Seventy-four 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.
According to statistics provided by the United States Fire Administration www.usfa.fema.gov (http://www.usfa.fema.gov) there are 1,082,500 firefighters in the US 278,300 career and 804,200 volunteer.
One is too many, and I am being serious, been a Firefighter/EMT for 30 plus years, many of us get into situations that are often overlooked as a whole picture. Safety first..