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.
Firefighter Rob Robinson jokes that giving the kidney wasn’t required for getting permission to hunt, but felt like the right thing to do
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Fatal heart attacks can strike several hours after the fire is out; this kills about 10 firefighters per year, but doesn’t have to
Fire chief: He was always willing to help out around the fire station
Fellow firefighters organized a blood drive and bone marrow registry to help save the firefighter who is suffering from leukemia; a bone marrow transplant is his last hope
The HeatSeeker rehab caps can attach to any discharge port to act as a cooling mist station to relieve heat stress
His fellow firefighters are also holding benefits to help alleviate financial stress
Capt. Turner was heralded as a very active member of the department
The singer says the Detroit firefighter saved his life when he went into diabetic insulin shock when he was a child
The firefighter had a medical problem while driving causing him to lose control of the vehicle
The 49-year-old engineer died of what appears to be a massive heart attack
The cadet collapsed during training and was rushed to the hospital
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Veteran firefighter Dustin Hawkins suffered second- and third-degree burns on his face, neck and forearms
Robert Knight, 64, died May 1 in Washington, D.C., where he was attending a Congressional Fire Services Institute event; the cause of death is yet to be determined
Here I am, naked and exposed in a public forum, making a confession that, quite frankly, scares the crap out of me: Hi, I’m Kelly, and I suffer from depression
No firefighters were hurt at two apartment and one single-family home fires
The legs look like a robotic hover-cot of the future or something seen in a science fiction movie
A firefighter, and town employee, lost a leg at an incident last month; the policy amendment would make the position of the town clear in the future
The firefighter, who was thrown off the ladder and onto a concrete floor by the explosion, was released after being checked out by doctors
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