Firefighter Wellness: How Important Is It?
Firefighter wellness – the hot topic. Earlier this morning I read an article about another cardiac-related firefighter line-of-duty death. The firefighter was 53 years old.…
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Firefighter Fitness: Understanding the Phases of Fitness
I want to help firefighters and other emergency service personnel understand the levels/phases of firefighter fitness and the importance of progressing from one phase to…
Prolonged Grief Disorder in the First Responder
Grieving longer than normal is associated with prolonged grief disorder. Historically, mental health has been ignored, minimized, or downplayed at the fire chief and firefighter…
Training on death notification: The hard conversation
You just finished working a field termination in front of the family, now what? It’s a moment that lingers in the memory of every emergency…
Mental Health in the Fire Service: Are We Failing?
It seems as if we prevent everything in the fire service but mental health failure. We focus on fire prevention, safety committees, injury prevention, equipment…
Cancer Awareness In The Fire Service
What, cancer awareness? Do we really need to know about this? We hear it all the time, how dangerous it is to be a firefighter. …
Firefighter Health and Safety
irefighters are known to perform hours upon hours of recertification training, book work, computer scenarios, table top drills and fire scenarios to h…
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