Fire departments among seven reporting jurisdictions in Canada attended just over 39,000 fires in 2021, marking the second consecutive year of increases. Both fires and the number of fatalities increased during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the number of deaths rising from 148 in 2019 to 202 in 2021. Prior to the pandemic, total fire incidents had generally been declining.
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