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.
The bill, which is named for Frederick County Battalion Chief Joshua Laird, is meant to prevent pipes from failing after a lightning strike
FITNESS IN FOCUS
The Georgia Office of Public Safety Support was created after legislation supporting the effort to formalize peer counseling for first responders passed in 2018
I can’t presume to know what’s in the heart of this vaccine resister, but each preventable firefighter, paramedic and cop COVID-19 death is heartbreaking to me
How I learned to accept a life without my father and trust that everything happens for a reason
My dad will always be a hero but so are my mom and the people from the firefighter community who have supported us
Ex-Providence Lt. Lori Franchina says she is in intensive outpatient psychiatric treatment and unable to work, putting her near poverty level
Knowing how to intervene when a firefighter is going off the rails could save their career and protect the department’s reputation
The firefighter was transported to the hospital; the condition of the firefighter is unknown
Maia Dalton-Theodore will focus on collaboration, plus safe, confidential and customized services, to serve the city’s firefighters
Two Riverside County fire engines were also damaged in the blast
The firefighters were quickly transported to the hospital, with one firefighter listed as in “serious condition”
COMPLETE COVERAGE
Fellow firefighters issued a mayday call, but the crewmember was able to remove himself
Josh Owens helped his family members to safety before working to control a critically injured person’s blood loss
Galveston Firefighter Dustin Jones and neighbors tried to rescue 3-year-old Jade and 2-year-old Logan before more firefighters arrived on scene
Several Red Jacket Mountain View Resort guests and two firefighters needed medical attention following the incident
Caylie Valenta started the Andy Valenta Melanoma Foundation to honor her 33-year-old husband who died three months after his melanoma diagnosis
Listen and watch as Gordon Graham underlines the importance of first responders seeking early treatment as soon as mental health symptoms appear
Within two years of enactment, the act would ban the manufacture, import or sale of any firefighting foam that includes PFAS
The Hamilton firefighter was in the front passenger seat of the rig and was leaning on the door when it opened
Fellow firefighters applauded for Robert Velazquez, who has two broken arms