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.
Firefighters will needlessly suffer until we break down the fence separating mental health fact from fiction
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The body is a complex system and mobility-limiting pain in one of these four areas is often the symptom of correctable problems elsewhere
Firefighter Alex Galang returned to work 10 months after he fell into a basement when a fire caused the first floor to give way
Tim Boniface will be representing Men’s Health for a year, a role he hopes will help him promote health and wellness for firefighters
It is the chief’s, the department’s and the community’s responsibility to provide exams; it’s the firefighters who should demand it
Fire chief on Indiana’s devastating tornado: “It just seemed like it went on and on forever. It was awful.”
The company officer sets the stage for how firefighters use and clean their PPE to protect themselves from occupational cancers
The department’s Behavioral Health Task Force was created to get firefighters to talk to each other and help deal with their high-stress lifestyle
All three firefighters are resting comfortably at home and will continue rehab at a burn unit
The firefighter received CPR on scene, was revived and transported to a hospital for surgery
Not every firefighter reacts the same way to a bad call and a cookie-cutter debriefing may do more harm than good
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William Torres told his father that if he wanted a medal, he would have to earn it
Battalion Chief Kevin Wise received a bone marrow transplant after battling leukemia last year
Moving properly and strengthening certain muscle groups is an important part of the training program
Pain while running calls or sitting around the station is not normal and it can be treated with strength and flexibility exercises
Over $18,000 has been raised to help firefighter Scott Franks pay for medical expenses
Bill Fenton said he became a wedding officiant to help couples on a tight budget
The registry would enable researchers to study the relationship between firefighters’ exposure to dangerous fumes and harmful toxins
Firefighters are three times more likely to die by suicide than in the line of duty, according to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
Doctors told firefighter Matt Sellers he had a 30 percent chance to live
Crews are pushing for a revised version of a bill, which limits eligibility to cancer-stricken firefighters living tobacco-free for five years prior to diagnosis
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