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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For a long and healthy career in public safety, start each shift with your gear, truck, and your body in excellent working order
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