Year-end Fire Department statistics showed 2019 produced the sharpest year-to-year decline in the number of civilian fire deaths in the city for the last decade.
There were 66 civilian fire deaths, down from 88 in 2018, a 25-percent reduction. In each of the last 14 years, there were fewer than 100 deaths annually in the city.
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