City's Firefighter Injuries On Decline, but Service Calls Are Up

Medical and indemnity paid to injured firefighters for the City of Norwalk, Connecticut, fell in 2021, the second consecutive year of declining workers' compensation rates for the 140-member fire department. Injured firefighters were paid $330,00 in benefits last year, a 45% drop from $606,000 paid in 2020, according to a report by the Middletown Press newspaper. It's also a 72% decline from the $1.19 million paid in benefits in 2019. The paper said 14 firefighter personnel sustained serious injuries that required time away from work in 2021. In 2019, 21 serious injuries were re...