Hmm... upon closer reading, I see the charts says that there is a 17% chance that there will be some degree of job losses due to computerization. I think that's

Hmm... upon closer reading, I see the charts says that there is a 17% chance that there will be some degree of job losses due to computerization. I think that's a more reasonable thesis (though not for the reasons you mention). Fire prevention will only take you so far. You still need to be able to deal with the inevitable fires that still occur, and you need to have the capacity to deal with them 24/7/365. You can only reduce staffing so much and still have the ability to put a single structure fire out, and many departments are at that point already. I do see a potential for job losses due to augmentation technologies (exoskeltons, etc) that will enable one firefighter to do tasks that previously took two, etc...