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
The drill is held each year so the Department can be prepared and plan its response to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive incidents
Regardless of how many fires occur each year, the fireground remains a dangerous and unpredictable place
One of the least understood and least talked about areas of firefighter rehab is also one of the most crucial parts
The most frequent type of injury on the fireground was strain, sprain or muscular pain representing 48.2 percent of injuries
The department purchased six Masimo Rad-57 Pulse CO-Oximeters through a grant received from FEMA
We should be the first ones to acknowledge when we’re having a problem and get some help
A proposed deal would distribute as much as $712 million among the workers
Each firefighter has a different story, and the Phoenix Fire Department is planning to make changes to help support firefighters
Freeport’s is the first fire department in Maine to be screened with the equipment
An annual wellness test of fire department employees turned up irregularities in his blood
COMPLETE COVERAGE
Chief Andy Mitten was honored as part of the show “Mobbed” after his daughter’s donated organs helped save a woman’s life
Know the signs of cardiac arrest and stroke and swiftly treat those symptoms
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’
