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.
It’s important to be present, communicate, do what’s right and, most importantly, keep going through the chaos
FITNESS IN FOCUS
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
Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 542 to create a rebuttable presumption that a worker’s mental health struggles are an occupational injury
Betty T. Miller sustained serious injuries when her vehicle crashed into the fire station causing extensive manage to the building, an EMS vehicle and a trailer
Firefighters can be exposed to PFHxS and other PFAS chemicals from firefighting foam, exposure from contaminated PPE, managing PFAS foam wastes and contaminated fire stations
Firefighter-Paramedic Robbie Pettingill battled PTSD from job-related stress
Authorities say Croyle crashed into the Twin Peaks restaurant, then threw buckets of fuel, propane tanks and fuel-soaked blankets inside and torched it
COMPLETE COVERAGE
About 1,000 members were tested for antibodies this week as part of a pilot program to determine how many first responders may have immunity
The camp, which normally serves children with serious illnesses, is equipped with onsite medical facilities
When firefighters arrived, they discovered the fire and smoke pouring from the second, third and fourth floors
The department found plans online to build the boxes themselves
Fire and EMS leaders gather with the Center for Firefighter Injury Research & Safety Trends to discuss the path ahead for public safety
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