{"id":1103,"date":"2002-07-24T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-25T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2002-07-24T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-25T02:54:00","slug":"heroism-has-its-drawbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/07\/24\/22\/54\/heroism-has-its-drawbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroism Has Its Drawbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did so<\/i> many firefighters have to die during the collapse of the World Trade Center? This article<\/a> says no.<\/p>\n

Unregulated heroism is part of the U.S. firefighting culture, Klein said. In large part, it is why firefighters die at far higher rates in the United States than in Britain, he said. For every 100,000 firefighters on the job, <\/a>between eight and 10 died in the line of duty in the United States each year between 1969 and 1999. In Britain, the number was about two.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did so many firefighters have to die during the collapse of the World Trade Center? This article says no. Unregulated heroism is part of the U.S. firefighting culture, Klein said. In large part, it...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t