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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Other families wonder if the lack of protection when using the toxins caused cancer in their relatives
Without a solid paper trail, volunteers at 9/11 have difficult time getting repaid for medical ailments
The 30-year veteran volunteer firefighter collapsed at the scene
Four months after cardiac event, firefighter says, ‘I do’
Mike Bell served as a firefighter and paramedic for 19 years
Chief Mortensen had 42 years in the fire service, 38 of those as chief
The fundraising will off set the cost of follow up care and maintenance drugs
Firefighter: ‘Most of my emotions are guilt, guilt because we weren’t able to do something’
The study suggests possible links with prostate, thyroid and a type of blood cancer
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Engine Company 66 has been empty since Dec. 18 after a firefighter was taken to the hospital after becoming dizzy and light-headed
Firefighters were able to save one of the four children left alone by their mother, who was sentenced to jail time
Firefighter Joseph Bove, 53, collapsed at home after responding to a call of a gas leak earlier in the day
The Vulnerability Assessment Program will allow fire departments to assess levels of risk to firefighters
Gordon Routley unpacked 10 years of LODD statistics
One firefighter fell down a stairwell while stretching a hoseline; both went to the hospital for treatment and were later released
John, a firefighter of about 20 years, spent six months in the hospital; he is still in rehab for a “severely broken” left leg and a shoulder injury that leaves him unable to lift one of his arms above elbow level
Salvatore Cassano outlines how FDNY improved its safety performance and what new programs it is rolling out
Fire Chief Jamie A. Peite, 43, was participating in pumper training and began to not feel well but thought it was not serious
The best and brightest in the fire service will be looking at this and how to prevent LODDs
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