A centralized destination for industrial fire departments, fire brigades, emergency response teams, and the municipal departments that work alongside them. Data, research, advocacy, and training built specifically for responders who protect refineries, plants, and facilities.
Data and Research
Industrial Firefighter Fatalities
A continually updated record of industrial firefighter line-of-duty deaths in the United States, documenting a population routinely excluded from national fatality statistics. Includes incident types, contributing factors, and lessons learned. Archived dataset: Zenodo DOI.
Industrial Run Volume and Data Sharing
How much do industrial emergency response organizations actually respond, and what would it take to share that information across facilities? Run volume data and the case for a shared reporting standard.
IFRIG-F: Industrial Firefighter Response and Incident Governance Framework
A data governance framework for collecting, organizing, and sharing industrial incident information anonymously and consistently, so that teams, agencies, and safety professionals can learn from aggregated patterns rather than isolated events.
Off-Site Emergency Response by Industrial Firefighters
Verified incidents where industrial fire departments assisted municipal or regional emergency operations outside their own facilities. Archived dataset: Zenodo DOI.
Firefighter Cancer Presumption Law Dataset
A jurisdiction-level reference of firefighter cancer presumption laws and benefit programs across all 50 states, DC, and U.S. territories, and which of them cover industrial and privately employed firefighters. Archived dataset: Zenodo DOI.
Advocacy
Same Risks, Unequal Protections
Why industrial firefighters deserve the same cancer and line-of-duty benefits as everyone else. An interactive briefing on the federal PSOB gap, the research behind it, and what it would take to close it.
Understanding Industrial Fire Services
How industrial fire services shape the response landscape for the municipal departments around them, and why cross-training and shared standards matter. From the Fire Engineering article, November 2025.
Training
Industrial Incident Command Trainer
An AI simulator built around an industrial facility: a combination department of full-time firefighters and ERT members, delayed ERT response, chief officers with hidden tendencies, fixed suppression systems, and hazmat requirements. Run a shift as Captain or Battalion Chief. Part of the AI Training Simulators.
Contribute
Research on industrial emergency response depends on responders who are willing to share what they know. Each of these takes a few minutes and is collected anonymously.
- Why does your facility have an emergency response team? Help document the reasons on-site teams are established.
- Report an off-site response your industrial department made in support of a public agency.
- Share your run volume to help build the picture of how much industrial teams actually respond.