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.
Despite shooting the firefighter and vet in the abdomen, the shooter’s plea requires a 7-month sentence
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Firefighters found Burlington Fire Lt. Steven N. Costello in cardiac arrest and transported him to a local emergency department
Bloomberg warned that the city’s pension bills will lead to a crisis; firefighters claiming health issues partake in marathons, martial arts
The bill would have provided free health care and compensation payments to 9/11 rescue and recovery workers
A bill to help provide financial aid to the responders may not get the two-thirds support required to pass
5-year-old Dylan Jolley saw firefighters working hard to put out a fire and thought they would appreciate some support
Lower insurance premiums and annual physical tests help keep Richmond County’s responders fit
Help your agency to breed a healthier, fitter, more productive, and less injured responder
Ted Wilson helps fellow firefighters deal with stress, including after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
FDNY doctors determined he was suffering from asthma and other lung ailments; he said he was told to retire despite wanting to serve
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More than 20 other people also remained hospitalized, some in critical condition
U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating Monster’s connection to 5 deaths and 1 non-fatal heart attack
Interesting products were demonstrated at the European Resuscitation Council 2012 Congress in Vienna, Austria, last week
The suit will be resistant to hazmat and grant superhuman strength
Five reports of people catching fire have been made, four in the US and one in Canada
Jakub Halik lived for six months with a mechanical heart, dying from liver failure
The firefighter is accused of hiring a hit man to kill his estranged wife
In actuality, the woman was sitting on the windowsill of a four-story building so she could use her neighbor’s wireless Internet signal
Frequent users of the emergency department do not have higher rates of non-urgent visits than typical ER patients, according to American College of Emergency Physicians
Chief Larry Nielsen was responding to a barn fire when he fell ill
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