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.
Rudy and Channel are in El Paso to deliver “unconditional love and support” to first responders and victims affected by the mass shooting
FITNESS IN FOCUS
Firefighter Mike Arnold is the first patient to receive a heart pump from Nebraska Heart Hospital that may cause his heart to heal itself
Conduct a personal 360 size-up to evaluate how your behavior contributes to the success of the mission
The NFFF partnered with Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas, a suicidologist, in an effort to create effective suicide prevention and awareness programs
Panama City Fire Department Assistant Fire Chief Gary Swearingen is launching a mental health initiative after learning how many firefighters die by suicide
The unidentified Chelsea firefighters were transported to the hospital after helping battle a blaze that scorched multiple apartment buildings
Legislators added several rules to a newly-approved tax break, including one that says the responder must have been employed in the state at the time of injury
The firefighter was transported to the hospital after helping battle a difficult blaze that required crews to drag around 750 feet of hose into the woods
Jeffrey Holt, 60, had just finished and passed his annual fitness test when he collapsed minutes later
Firefighters’ schedules and the nature of their work put them at increased risk for sleep disorders and their consequences
Three cancers – cervical, ovarian and penile – were added to the list of cancers presumed to be work-related
COMPLETE COVERAGE
Investigators determined that the East Evans Fire started in a shack where Michael Cashmareck was running an illegal butane hash oil lab
Norman Edward Klenow, 78, suffered from cardiac arrest after providing traffic control at the scene of a crash
Lieutenant Sullivan was a veteran fire officer and a member of FDNY’s Special Operations Command who served the department for nearly three decades
Jay Frisbee, 37, was sentenced to a driver alcohol education program and his license will be suspended for 45 days
Four firefighters suffered minor injuries; standpipe problem required firefighters to stretch a line up some of the building’s stairs
Phoenix Fire Department members gathered to see Emery Beck off to her first day of kindergarten
Town officials and the fire chief praised the firefighter and paramedic’s empathy in handling the situation
Two firefighter-paramedics, the patient they were transporting and driver of the Jeep were taken to the hospital
Kevin Leago is due about $60,000 in back pay for workdays he missed because of his illness and can seek treatment at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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