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Finding fitness just a game for innovative departments View the West Metro Fire Rescue wellness program
Just under 10 years ago, a Denver fire department was facing the fat.

Forty-three of its 240 firefighters measured clinically obese and nine were morbidly obese. Twenty-five percent of the firefighters couldn't meet the minimum aerobic standard to fight fires.

In response, the department came up with a comprehensive fitness plan – and the results have been startling Full Story




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