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.
“My whole life has been to serve and protect and in one day it was all taken away from me,” Eric Hardy said while recalling the fire aboard the USS Miami
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Here’s an overview of what naloxone is and how responders are helping curb the opioid epidemic
State law only offers benefits to volunteer firefighters who suffer from lung cancer, whereas career firefighters receive coverage for over 23 types of cancer
The pub will pour only “100 percent American-made craft beverages,” including cider, kombucha and root beer
Like any fireground activity, a well-run rehab sector begins with planning and ends with execution
The study could ultimately determine which exposures most often cause cancer
Research is showing that firefighter behavioral health problems are more long-term than single-event occurrences
Keeping firefighters and carcinogens separated takes a plan, discipline and some pocket change; here’s how to do it
Michael Willets will return to work part-time on code compliance and wants to finally learn how to play golf
Indian River Chief David Dangerfield’s death shined a light on firefighters who suffer from PTSD and the heavy nature and emotional impact of calls.
Changes in pension formulas or medical benefits in retirement have caused those in the fire service to consider early retirement or face dramatic reductions in pensions and benefits.
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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
Spooner Fire District Department firefighter Philip Neubich was found unresponsive by his wife several hours after responding to the call
The U.S. Fire Administration said cardiac-related issues are the leading cause of death for firefighters on duty
Bay St. Louis Fire Chief Monty Strong said that while Michael Guitreau cannot speak, he wrote the message to Chief Strong when he came to visit in the hospital
Robert Cordani responded to a medical call for a neighbor suffering from cardiac arrest and began to perform CPR before collapsing from cardiac arrest himself
A witness said he saw firefighters pull an “intoxicated” man from the crashed vehicle, but police said the crew told them no one had been inside when they arrived
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