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.
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
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The best way to convince any patient to make the right decision is to eliminate the drama and make a reasonable argument
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