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.
Family, friends and fellow firefighters gathered to remember 33-year-old firefighter who died of cancer
FITNESS IN FOCUS
We are not playing a game, but we are playing the odds when we fail to properly prepare and train for each event we encounter.
Firefighter injuries more likely to occur while exercising, which aims to prevent injuries, than while putting out fires, new research suggests
Your abdominals’ primary job is twofold: to create trunk stability and core/spine stiffness
100 firefighters battled fire, which started when woman forgot she had been cooking french fries on stove in Cupertino apartments
5-alarm fire gutted one of Berkeley’s crown jewel buildings, destroying popular eateries, leaving dozens of residents homeless
Arsonist poured gasoline on kitchen floor or left it in bins to slowly allow its vapor to seep out, saturate the house before appliance ignited fire
Firefighter’s doctor cites PTSD from July accident that killed his colleague as leaving him unable to return to work
Chuck Ryan sustained 2nd- and 3rd-degree burns over nearly half of his body, almost lost 4 fingers, underwent number of surgeries while hospitalized for 7 weeks after house fire
Barrels of liquid cyanide used by company to fireproof insulation after its installation contributed to toxic smoke
Fire over summer sent hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into waterways surrounding city in July, forcing several beach closings
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He was on medical leave after having a similar attack in August
He suffered the burns after he and a fellow firefighter rushed into a burning house while they were off-duty
The firefighter died of injuries sustained while battling the wildfire
Without money from his pension or salary, the firefighter worries how he and his family will survive
He suffered minor injures to his leg and is expected to be okay
As heartless as it is, there are those who prey on the willingness of firefighters to help the families of fallen firefighters
Firefighters initially had difficulty keeping a man out of the building who thought his son was inside
Lt. Jim Fellows, 45, had won several awards, including firefighter of the year
Other firefighters initially performed CPR on the injured firefighter
About 80 to 90 firefighters worked to squelch the flames after parts of the roof caved in as flames shot through it
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