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.
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
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The increased frequency and cost of leave has forced the fire department to spend millions of dollars in overtime
The union agreed to the ban in 1990, but now want its members to be able to use tobacco without risk of being fired
The department hired a sports firm to train a team of firefighters to serve as in-department fitness experts
The law, which funds treatment for workers sickened by the toxic fumes of Ground Zero, expires in 2016
Officials credit fire departments for the fewer injuries and deaths by continuing to spread awareness in school visits and open houses
Department veterans say the rookies are being allowed on light duty after suffering lesser injuries like a sprained ankle
Never mind the workout, focus on these job-specific training exercises to improve fitness and reduce injury
Understanding what it means to be extreme and when to do it will make you the best you can be — even at running rehab sectors
Working the medical tent at an endurance event shows similarities and differences to firefighter rehab
Commissioner Daniel Nigro said their deaths are a painful reminder that 13 years later we continue to pay a terrible price for the department’s heroic efforts
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Chief Terry Culver suffered the on-duty injury Nov. 12; he died of complications Tuesday
FEMA gave the University of Arizona $1.5 million to learn the relationship between cancer and the chemicals firefighters are exposed to
Officials say the number of injury claims have increased since the mayor tried to reorganize firefighters’ schedules
Mark Cohen, a 29-year veteran, was discharged after multiple surgeries, a prolonged hospital stay and physical therapy
A $50,000 grant will test 100 firefighters; priority will be given to those deployed on 9/11, the OKC bombing or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Being a good apparatus operator starts in the station, extends to the street and carries over to the fireground
Jairus ‘Matt’ Pierce’s kidney function is at 17 percent; if it goes down to 12 percent he’ll be forced to go on dialysis
Choeurlyne Doirin-Holder, 39, hurt herself while conducting a routine check of equipment
Fire Boat 1 Capt. Walter Szelag died of an apparent heart attack on his last boat shift of the season
The fire chief sent a letter to the judge asking that he be given jail time since he had ample opportunity to come clean
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