The New York City fire epidemic as a toxic phenomenon
- 1 April 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Internationales Archiv für Arbeitsmedizin
- Vol. 50 (1) , 33-51
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00432492
Abstract
Reductions in the fire service in New York City from 1972 to 1976 appear to have caused a disproportionate increase in fire-fighter work load through several unexpected mechanisms of fire contagion. In turn, the work load increase has itself had a disproportionate physiologic impact: A classic dose-response relation has been observed between a composite measure of per capita structural fire work load and the percentage of the fire-fighting work force retiring under conditions of disability. After 1974, the increase in work load seems to have caused entry to the ‘linear’ portion of the dose-response curve. Implications of this synergism are explored for both New York City and other American urban areas now suffering ‘fiscal crises’ or planning fire service reductions.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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