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.
FITNESS IN FOCUS
After the urgency of a trauma scene gives way to the thoughts of what more could have been done, the responders are sometimes left with no outlet to handle what they’ve seen and done
The fund is intended to help people who became ill after working at ground zero and others whose sicknesses can be tied to the site
The paralyzed man appears to have suffered life-threatening third-degree burns; the firefighter was transferred to a burn center
Eighty-seven firefighters from 31 states lost their lives in 83 fatal incidents in 2010
Budget problems in the city recently forced officials to lay off 17 firefighters, forcing firefighters to wait for another crew further away
Animals including goats, chickens and rabbits were rescued from the fire
After operating on the fireground, you merely sit in the chair and put your arms in the two water cooled reservoirs
The firefighter suffered a heat-related injury
The union vice president said he knows of about 10 to 12 recent instances of injured firefighters being put right back on duty in recent weeks
COMPLETE COVERAGE
He was taken by helicopter to a hospital where he was listed in stable condition; his hands and arms suffered the worst damage
Family, friends and fellow firefighters gathered to remember 33-year-old firefighter who died of cancer
Lt. Ryan Emmons lost his arm when a tractor-trailer collided with his fire truck
The news from West, Texas reaffirms that firefighters make mistakes like everybody else, and that we need to discuss these issues to reduce those mistakes
Efforts to revive the 31-year fire veteran by fellow firefighters were unsuccessful
Firefighters kept the structure fire from spreading to a nearby wooded area
Kevin Hall’s death is the third line-of-duty death in Oregon this month
Both were treated for heat exhaustion
Two of the injured suffered heat exhaustion as more than 1,400 firefighters battle the blaze
The firefighter placed his hands on a sofa that had plastic on it and the plastic melted to his gloves, burning his hands
