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That's what Harold A. Schaitberger had in mind. Now the general president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, he got an hour in the air with Clinton in the mid-1990s. The union boss told the president how the number of firefighting deaths, which had been declining sharply, was stalled at about 100 a year.
It might not have hurt their case that the firefighters had endorsed Clinton in 1992 and 1996. The president put $2.5 million in his budget for fiscal 1998 to study firefighter deaths. Congress gave the job to the Centers for Disease Control.
"We wanted to model it after the NTSB process," said Richard M. Duffy, the union's health and safety chief. "The public expects it. They expect to see those blue windbreakers every time there is such an incident.... And I think we’re getting to the point that firefighters expect that, too.”
After a decade and more than 300 investigations, how is the CDC doing?