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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Interim fire commissioner, Jonathan Jackson, 44, says he’s retiring unexpectedly due to a serious neurological brain condition
At least 230 San Francisco firefighters have died of cancer over the past decade
SCBA is the most important piece of PPE, and the reasons for not using it are no longer valid
Firefighters were responding to a medical call when the ambulance got stuck in mud; the firefighter was behind the ambulance when he was hit
Having the right stair chair for the job will make moving the patient safer and save firefighters’ backs
EMS, police, and firefighters will be able to file claims for mental-health counseling following a post-traumatic stress diagnosis
Assistant Chief Tom Stevens suffered a heart attack hours after returning home from an emergency response
What you can’t, and can, see on your PPE will hurt you; follow these steps to avoid exposure to cancer-causing agents
Firefighter-medic Wayne Jeffers was dispatched on a run and never answered the call; his partner went to get him and found him unresponsive
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Lt. James Garris: “The only thing I was able to get out was, ‘mayday, mayday, mayday.’”
He fell through the attic into a room that was not burning; he was released from the hospital and is resting at home
Capt. Dwight Greer, 44, collapsed while playing basketball at the firehouse; fellow firefighters were unsuccessful in saving him
It is any firefighter’s worst nightmare and it happens more often than you would think
Many families have deep roots in the fire service; here’s one family that kept their fire service family tradition alive
Jamie and Teresa Kuchyt’s marriage of two firefighting families gives them an incredible combined 150 years of service with the fire company
In 1995, he was thrown from a fire truck that was responding to a building alarm; he was never able to walk again
It will ban four chemical fire retardants that some fear are responsible for a dramatic rise of cancer in firefighters
Training on duty, proper lifting motions and physical ability testing are hot-button issues that science is addressing
After the shock of hearing his own address dispatched, he radioed that no one was in the home
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