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.
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Fire Chief Bryan Cathey is doing much better and is recovering in the intensive care unit
Fabric of Fire Service winner Pete Villasuso created an autism-awareness program for his fire department after his son was diagnosed with the disorder in 2012
Summer means added stress on firefighters’ bodies; a well-planned and executed rehab will mitigate that danger
Stretching is key to mobility and protection from injury, but it can hurt; here’s why it hurts and how to end the pain
Logic predicts a decline in firefighter cancer, but what tomorrow’s furniture is made of remains a wildcard
They were taken to the hospital to be treated for heat exhaustion; two firefighters later returned to help with the rekindled fire
Fire chief: “When they get to the firehouse, they talk it out ... it’s a peer counseling sort of thing.”
With no standards to guide us, the best way to do gross decontamination on scene is anyone’s guess
The coals seared much of the skin between his ankle and hip; he suffered second-degree burns to 15 percent of his body
The fire chief ordered an investigation into the party dubbed ‘kegs and eggs’ where alcohol consumption and vandalism took place
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When researchers studied severely obese firefighters and its effect on their health and safety, the results were alarming
Smokey was matched with the department after being rescued from a kill shelter in Arizona
Cody Zinn, 21, was surprised with a ride in the department’s ladder truck bucket this week
The data linking firefighting and breast cancer is slim but growing, and this cancer strikes men as well as women
The Oregon firefighter grew up watching Cubs games on television with his dad
Eric Hurst said he purchased the rig for $13,000 after seeing it for sale online
The puppy was found tied up on the side of the road during a rainy day
The rehab unit is a modified transit bus to keep firefighters rested, fed and hydrated
The chief wrote a post about PTSD before telling dispatchers where they could find his body
After being thrown 30 feet in the air in June, Tom Albert has returned to light duty
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