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.
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The bill will help fund equipment, supplies and training to help reduce exposure to cancer-causing contaminants
How fire/EMS can protect personnel physically and financially during the COVID-19 pandemic
Sorting through the maze of public health information overload and overlap
The testing site at the city fire station is open to anyone and can provide same-day or next-day results
The three firefighters were not informed by the county health department or hospital that a patient they transported had died from the virus
Personnel will instead be asked to wear masks and monitor for symptoms in order to prevent staffing shortages
The CDC has posted NIOSH guidelines for extended use and limited reuse of N95 masks
Summit County is asking dentists, construction companies, small businesses and anyone else who has PPE to donate to firefighters and EMS
Officials say the firefighter sustained second-degree burns to his hands at the blaze that spread between three houses
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Ken Bouvier, NRP, offers the dos and don’ts to treating household hazmat scenarios and emerging threats
Spearfish public safety officials said the firefighter had volunteered with the department for 30 years and made “an unfortunate error in judgement”
The Scotland Volunteer Fire Department firefighter was said to be in critical condition after the unspecified accident while performing duties
A heart attack patient died and eight FDNY members were injured when the ladder truck T-boned the ambulance
The Pasadena firefighter was hospitalized after the incident during an apartment fire
School officials determined that the two students, both sons of first responders, were not politically motivated
The high school football players said they wanted to honor firefighters and police on the anniversary of 9/11 but had not received permission
Officials said the firefighter was forced to breach a wall to escape as “the room lit up on him” during a blaze on Friday
FDNY Firefighter Piotr Orlowski carried his neighbor from a burning building and evacuated his parents during the five-alarm blaze
Firefighters report losing track of time due to sleep-deprivation, worrying about their own families evacuating
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