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.
“We kept hoping that we would find somebody somewhere, but it didn’t work out that way,” Pittsburgh Bureau Fire Captain said of Surfside aid mission
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Contra Costa County Firefighter Karl Taugher’s put his training into action when he realized he and his wife wouldn’t get to the hospital in time
The Mangohick firefighters were responding to a non-emergency medical call when the crash occurred
St. Louis Firefighter-EMT Demetris “Al” Alfred told the president his biggest concern was financial support to avoid layoffs and budget cuts
The Detroit Fire Department is investigating after firefighters allegedly traveled to a party in the apparatus and consumed alcohol while on duty
Three of the firefighters were hurt by falling concrete when a portion of the garage collapsed
The one-shot vaccine may help speed distribution efforts if it is approved by federal regulators
Officials say Cornell Firefighter Justin Fredrickson, 35, was operating a hose line outside when the bullet went through the wall, striking him
Jonathan and Matthew Burgess juggle the demands of their firefighter and LE careers with their built-from-the-ground-up food business
The open-access paper outlines how hood design, cleaning and doffing methods affect contaminatant exposure, heat stress and firefighter comfort
The program scheduled for June 20-26 seeks to bring attention to post-incident physical and psychological health
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As part of the Community Assistance Response program, paramedics and mental health professionals, rather than police, are at the forefront of non-violent crisis calls
A chemical reaction to peroxide and ammonia injured a dozen Cambridge firefighters
The missing 16-year-old is the granddaughter of retired Verde Valley Fire, Ambulance chiefs and is the niece of a Cottonwood firefighter
An Allentown firefighter was transported to a local hospital after working a fire at an elementary school that destroyed mobile classrooms
When asked about union pushback on the decision, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city has a right to require that its workforce gets vaccinated or tested
The mandate applies to roughly 340,000 workers, including firefighters, cops and teachers
Surfside condo collapse search concludes after a month of work with 97 individuals confirmed dead
EMT Jacob Dindinger continues to fight while recovering from injuries suffered in Tucson shooting
Firefighter Thomas Royds, 49, was killed, and two other firefighters and a state trooper were injured when struck at crash scene
Heavy fire was showing from a vacant two-story rowhome when firefighters arrived, and the flames spread to three other vacant homes