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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Older firefighters must face the reality of aging, but also get the chance to balance their younger counterparts
Volunteer Firefighter Gregory Cooke was unfit to wear SCBA and advance water-filled hoselines, NIOSH investigators found
Low back pain can affect the strongest and most muscular firefighter — in some ways they are more susceptible because they have more muscle to tear
The plan would expand current city 9/11 health programs to cover an additional 25,000 responders and 25,000 survivors
Chronic condition represents a ‘breakdown in the body’s defense against toxic substances’
The IAFF, under contracts with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, designed the new SCBA
Firefighter teams from all over New England and Canada competed in the Scott Firefighter Combat Challenge
NIOSH recommends fire departments provide medical evaluations consistent with NFPA 1582
With 7.3 percent of all on-duty firefighter deaths occurring during training, rehab can help reduce LODDs