{"id":2251,"date":"2015-06-17T22:52:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T05:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cjr.ufv.ca\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2015-06-17T22:52:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T05:52:53","slug":"firefighter-injuries-in-british-columbia-an-examination-of-frequency-severity-locational-and-temporal-aspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/2015\/06\/17\/firefighter-injuries-in-british-columbia-an-examination-of-frequency-severity-locational-and-temporal-aspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighter Injuries in British Columbia: An Examination of Frequency, Severity, Locational and Temporal aspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>When firefighter injuries occur, especially at the fire-ground, they tend to evoke heightened media attention as well as public concern and interest. While these concerns are understandable given the potential for injuries and casualties at the fire-ground or at other emergency incidents, such concerns must be placed into context. Firefighter injuries may potentially lead to severe or debilitating health outcomes, especially when incurred at the fire-ground. However, firefighter injuries in the province of British Columbia (BC) are infrequent; with few cases requiring hospitalization or extended medical leave.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ufv.ca%2Fmedia%2Fassets%2Fcriminal-justice-research%2FFirefighter-Injuries.pdf&hl=en_US&embedded=true\" class=\"gde-frame\" style=\"width:100%; height:500px; border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<p class=\"gde-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/media\/assets\/criminal-justice-research\/Firefighter-Injuries.pdf\" class=\"gde-link\">Download (PDF, Unknown)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When firefighter injuries occur, especially at the fire-ground, they tend to evoke heightened media attention as well as public concern and interest. While these concerns are understandable given the potential for injuries and casualties at the fire-ground or at other emergency incidents, such concerns must be placed into context. Firefighter injuries may potentially lead to &#8230; <a title=\"Firefighter Injuries in British Columbia: An Examination of Frequency, Severity, Locational and Temporal aspects\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/2015\/06\/17\/firefighter-injuries-in-british-columbia-an-examination-of-frequency-severity-locational-and-temporal-aspects\/\" aria-label=\"More on Firefighter Injuries in British Columbia: An Examination of Frequency, Severity, Locational and Temporal aspects\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":2258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}