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.
While more than 90% of the country is under stay-at-home orders, there are still ways to support public safety members during this unprecedented national emergency
FITNESS IN FOCUS
Henderson Fire Chief Shawn White said his goal is to provide more resources and start a dialogue about mental health
Firefighter Dan Ravenhorst was responding to a mobile home fire when he suffered a heart attack
“Mental health is very important to their overall wellbeing. It’s OK to seek help, and recovery is possible,” one official said
Officials said the source of the explosions may have been from an electrical transformer
The multi-day fire required the use of excavators to allow fire crews to reach the center of the structure
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Deputy Fire Commissioner Dave Fornell said three of the firefighters were inside the house when its upper level caved in
Proposed state legislation would provide funding to convert the former convent into Georgia’s first treatment center for first responders
Two firefighters were aboard the plane along with eight other passengers and three crewmembers
COMPLETE COVERAGE
The man faces multiple charges after allegedly pulling a fire alarm inside an apartment building where there was no emergency
A total of 44 personnel responded to the apartment blaze officials say began with a barbecue grill left unattended on a balcony
First responders discuss being in isolation, residual symptoms and questions about immunity after returning to the front lines
How to make a total-body fitness system using bedsheets or webbing
Firefighters arriving to put out the fire saw the man collapse on the side of the highway and began CPR
Communities members raised more than $6,000 in one day for Moyers Corners Fire Lt. Steve Rush and his family after the blaze
Christy Warren shares why she left the fire service and now works at a trauma retreat for first responders
The Coronavirus Frontline Workers Fair Pay Act would provide retroactive and ongoing hazard pay
Share these COVID-19 myth busters with your communities and encourage them to seek direction from their healthcare providers
The Wildfire and Community Health Response Act of 2020 requires reporting as pandemic approaches wildfire season