Collateral fire damage

Fascinating epi study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on firefighters and death from heart disease in the United States. One of the study findings:

Fire suppression, which represents only about 1 to 5% of firefighters' professional time each year, accounted for 32% of deaths from coronary heart disease and was associated with a risk of death from coronary heart disease that was approximately 10 to 100 times as high as the risk associated with nonemergency duties. We think that the most likely explanation for these findings is the increased cardiovascular demand of fire suppression.

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