Insurance agents often focus on the tangible risks and challenges different professions face. However, some hidden stressors can also affect the well-being of individuals and the community, particularly firefighters. [...]
Firefighting is among the most rigorous and physically demanding careers. Firefighters’ communities depend on them to be able to extinguish fires and perform life-saving rescues in various emergencies. To [...]
It is essential to know how to help firefighters return to work after an injury and how to process it appropriately. Firefighting is one of the most hazardous jobs [...]
Firefighter injuries are a common theme with firefighters who fight blazing infernos on a routine basis, and they must know how to recover. Most prepare for getting hurt with [...]
Obtaining enough funding for firefighter trucks is something that does not come easy for many fire stations. Fire departments have a critically important role. However, state and local funding [...]
We all love indulging in junk food from time to time, but it will not help performance on the fire and rescue scene. Better performance and physique start in [...]
Firefighters and first responders face an intimidating variety of incidents, with some having the potential for fatal injury. Natural disasters are relatively infrequent, whereas man-caused terrorism events are difficult [...]
Your fire department may or may not have implemented a health and wellness program. If yours does, how are you managing it? If yours doesn’t, how are you going [...]
Injuries are inevitable both on and off the fireground. Even the most prepared firefighter will face situations that cause trauma to the body, and the body can only take [...]
Retirement from a lifelong career can be a stressful event, regardless of the field. However, retirement from a career in public safety can be more stressful than from the [...]
