Do DHS Fire Grants Reduce Fire Casualties?

From FY 2001 to FY 2009, Congress appropriated $5.7 billion infunding for fire grants. Using panel data from 1999 to 2006 formore than 10,000 fire departments, this evaluation usesfixed-effects regressions to estimate the impact of fire grants onfour different measures of fire casualties: firefighter deaths,firefighter injuries, civilian deaths, and civilian injuries.

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