Health & Wellness
FireRescue1’s Health and Wellness resource center provides practical, evidence-informed guidance to support physical fitness, mental health and long-term career resilience. Coverage includes injury prevention, nutrition, sleep, stress management, cancer awareness and behavioral health to help fire service professionals remain healthy, capable and mission-ready on and off duty.
Fire Chief (ret.) Craig Daugherty recalled the day he responded to shots fired at the high school where his 15-year-old daughter was in lockdown
FITNESS IN FOCUS
Investigators are still trying to determine other factors in the Oakland Hills Country Club blaze, according to Bloomfield Township Fire Chief John LeRoy
About 200 fire departments out of over 800 have already joined the effort and ID’d more than 50,000 gallons of PFAS-containing foam that will be disposed of
The CDC and NIOSH are actively working to roll out the web portal and test the enrollment process
The children of active, retired or fallen firefighters are eligible for this merit-based scholarships
Each crew will include a firefighter/EMT, a social worker and a police officer
Michael Bynum was responding to a crash on an icy Tennessee bridge last month when the semi hit him
Fred Mathis was found to be likely intoxicated while at FD HQ but, at some point, was marked out sick; accusations of special treatment emerge
A2886 cleared the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee after advocates for the measure argued that it’s a matter of life and death for their coworkers
Lorain Assistant Fire Chief Matthew Homolya reportedly grabbed his neighbor by his throat, slammed him on the ground and punched him
“I saw the (concrete) jersey barrier break apart and then I saw a little bit of an explosion,” said Jeremy Kline of the Hummels Wharf Fire Company
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The primary goal of mental wellness check-ins is to provide public safety employees with increased quality of life as well as tools to manage their response to stress and trauma
Guardian House, a 66-unit complex, will have reduced rents for first responders who meet certain income requirements
One firefighter hurt in the Fresno County wildfire remains hospitalized
Determining what gear can be reasonably expected to survive and for how long is still subject to interpretation
The news is “tragic and very sad,” the Sun City Fire and Medical Department said in a statement following the death of Shane Godbehere, which is under investigation
Even as time and distance separate us from 9/11 and memories begin to fade, the NFFF remains committed to Never Forget fallen firefighters and their families
Cebollero, Dudley and Ludwig discuss honoring the legacy of 9/11
More than 180 firefighters, 19 fire engines and 13 trucks responded to the blaze that included five connected commercial structures
All four Newington crewmembers were transported to local hospitals