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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Legal to-and-fro began in 2004 when he failed a National Fire Protection Association eyesight test and was taken off active firefighting duty
Responders and other victims with cancer will continue to be excluded from federal help for people with illnesses
The NIOSH review is the first one of what will be a periodic investigation of scientific evidence on cancer and the exposure to contaminants at the WTC site
The firefighter was treated for dehydration
A salon worker was also hospitalized in the incident
The departments had to shuttle water to the scene by tanker truck and rotate crews to prevent heat exhaustion
One of the challenges of the EMS provider in rehab is to quickly do intake and assessment
Firefighters from Piercetown and West Pelzer alternated with a Whitefield crew to relieve each other from the heat
The firefighter has undergone several surgeries and skin grafts to heal the burns that covered 33 percent of his body
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