NFPA Journal - Summer 2022 - 75

Members of the Saskatoon Fire Department in Saskatchewan conduct
a lift drill. Data indicate that fire departments are experiencing sharp
increases in lift-assist calls for older people.
Metro EMS is dispatched first, and they
will only call us if they need assistance
because a person is wedged, or too
heavy to lift, or they need some special
tools. So, our data only gives you just a
tiny piece of the problem. It's very big. "
In Farmington Hills, Michigan, a
town of just over 10,000 people, the
local fire department responded to 428
falls in 2021, up 22 percent from the
previous year, according to prevention
officer Stanley Barnes. In Saskatoon,
a city of a quarter million, the fire
department lifted 1,285 people in 2021,
a nearly 12 percent jump over 2020
and more than double the number of
lifts the department handled in 2013.
Nearly 50 residents in Saskatoon called
the department at least five times for
lift assists last year, and some frequent
fallers called the department nearly 20
times, Krahn told me.
While the rise in fires has been less
dramatic than that of falls, the problem
is no less concerning to safety professionals.
Forty years ago, people aged
65 and older made up 18 percent of the
total fire deaths in the US; by 2018, that
age group comprised 36 percent of all
fire deaths, according to NFPA statistics.
All told, older adults are now twice
as likely as the general population to
experience a fatal fire.
With those daunting numbers as a
backdrop, Krahn, Anderson, and about
20 others at the 2019 workshop set
to work brainstorming strategies to
reverse the trends. They agreed that a
significant shakeup and expansion of
the Remembering When program was
needed. " We knew that reach and scale
needed to be first and foremost in the
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