Did you know?

• More than 43 percent of 1,006 on-duty firefighter fatalities recorded over a 10-year period were caused by "sudden cardiac death," according to a 2005 study by the National Fire Protection Association.

• A Harvard University study published in 2007 took a closer look at firefighters' deaths over the decade. It showed the risk of heart attack is highest when firefighters are working an emergency fire scene. Nearly 32 percent of heart-attack deaths occur at the scene.

• A 2008 study published in The American Journal of Cardiology showed that 61 percent of 87 dead firefighters studied from 1996 to 2006 were obese.

I got the above info from this site. Pretty interesting Health and Wellness program Phoenix Fire has. Personally I feel it should be national standard.

Here is some more firefighter heart attack info.