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.
Samantha Briggs was a firefighter in England, started her CrossFit career at 31, and became a Hamilton firefighter at 40
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Sarah Tierney, wife of Buffalo Firefighter Jason Arno blames negligence, cites conscious pain and suffering and wrongful death
Brownsville EMS providers transported several injured people to hospitals
Fire service leaders, families gather in Emmitsburg for the annual service
Watch this year’s tribute, which honors 79 firefighters who died in the line of duty in 2022 and 65 firefighters who died in previous years
“Often times we don’t really deal with our own getting hurt or being injured, so this is difficult for us,” said Capt. Jaeson Daniels, DeKalb fire spokesperson
The organization is hosting public and private events in person and is offering ways to participate from anywhere
Structural damage has prevented firefighters from entering the Newburyport building; EMS providers transported four PCI Synthesis/ SEQENS workers
Syracuse EMS providers transported the injured crewmembers and evaluated a disoriented person
Lt. Samod Rankins said he is “happy to be back,” but also is continuing his suit against New Haven
A third injured person was treated at the scene in Aurora
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Beaver Dam firefighters were injured while training on Beaver Dam Lake
One of the seriously injured firefighters remains in stable but critical condition
Following the hardest of calls, we hope to always circle back to the positive impacts that we have when we are able to make that save
Loudoun County Fire Rescue identified the fallen firefighter as Trevor Brown of the Sterling Volunteer Fire Company
Firefighters in Loudoun County were investigating a gas leak when the house they were inside exploded
The victim stayed inside the burning Bronx apartment as neighbors begged him to leave
Los Angeles General Medical Center Dr. Molly Deane said it is remarkable the firefighters were not more severely injured
Better sleep is the best first responder countermeasure to shift work and fatigue
Seven firefighters were injured in an explosion while fighting a truck fire
The president of the Firefighter Cancer Support Network – who just worked the Super Bowl – considers similarities between preparing for big events and preventing the Big C
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