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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Thanks to a quick response from local and area volunteer firefighters, the fire caused relatively little dollar damage
Yahoo! Studios highlights Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman’s battle through sickness resulting from responding to 9/11
Responder who worked at Ground Zero: ‘Totally heartbroken’
Let’s all help our staff stay healthy, both physically and mentally
His suicide might’ve escaped wide notice, except that it came on the heels of his public brouhaha with Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers
Pension benefits associated with WTC-related disability retirements have produced an increased financial burden of over $826 million on the FDNY pension system
There is a big push nationally to improve wellness, fitness, and safety and it cannot come at a better time
He suffered the heart attack while participating in Technical Rescue Training
He stands accused of trying to defraud the city out of a tax-free accidental disability pension
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With 2013 shaping up to be one of the worst years in recent history for line of duty deaths, adjust your practices with these root causes front of mind
NFPA members recently voted to keep the mandatory 10-year retirement rule in place for PPE; here’s why and why it is so difficult to evaluate
Many of the injuries were heat related as temperatures were near 100 degrees
Many of the injuries were heat related as temperatures were near 100 degrees
The firefighter was taken to the hospital with heat exhaustion
Cardiac events are the leading killer of firefighters; knowing how to spot the warning signs could a crew member’s life — or your own
FDNY says oppressive heat made battling the fire more difficult
None of the firefighters contracted the disease, but the mistake still put the firefighters in unnecessary danger
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The unidentified boy needed hospital treatment for third-degree burns on his face and chest
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