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Cardiovascular Disease in the Fire Service

WEBAs summarized in Figure 2, the study found that a shocking 69% of firefighters had evidence of hypertension. The prevalence of hypertension increased …

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Surviving the Fire Service Cardiac Epidemic

WEBFirefighting is an incredibly stressful job, and the physical toll a career in the fire service takes on the body can be dramatic. Jamie Webb looks at some of the …

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Rescuing the Hero Within: Firefighters and Self-Care

WEBFirefighters must prioritize their health and well-being to maximize their effectiveness in saving lives and property, David Conley writes. By David Martyn Conley. …

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The Essential Eight: The Holy Grail of Firefighter Cardiac …

WEBBy Todd LeDuc Cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause of death both in the United States of America and globally.According to 2022 statistics from …

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Creating and Enhancing Your Fire Department Wellness …

WEBBY JIM BURNEKA. Firefighter wellness is a very broad subject that includes behavioral health, occupational cancer, exercise and nutrition, sleep, injury prevention and …

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Mayday Monday: Firefighters and Cardiac Health

WEBWelcome to the annual heart health edition of Mayday Monday. This year’s theme is apparatus maintenance. Every fire department has two valuable assets: 1) fire …

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Sleep: A Missing Link to Cancer Prevention

WEBBy Dena Ali. See video. The increased toxicity of the modern fireground makes cancer one of the greatest threats to firefighter health today. Although this claim …

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Firefighter Physicals: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

WEBA 2016 survey conducted by the International Association of Fire Chief’s (IAFC’s) Safety, Health and Survival Section that had 9,000 respondents and which …

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Rule of Thumb: Use the Safest, Most Effective Path of …

WEBFORCIBLE ENTRY. Forcible entry is an operation in which the more common paths of least resistance may be unavailable for one reason or another either because of …

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Mental Wellness and the Fire Culture

WEB"Indeed, by taking the issues of mental wellness seriously, we can mitigate many of the contributing factors that later lead to the very mental wellness issues that …

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Four Fundamentals of Firefighter Functional Fitness

WEBBy Dan Kerrigan and Jim Moss “You don’t have to get ready if you stay ready.”-Jake Lovejoy. According to the United States Fire Administration, 1,000 …

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Physical Fitness in the Fire Service

WEBBY GUIDO CALCAGNO. Today’s firefighter needs to better understand the correlation between physical fitness and improved job performance. Firefighting is a …

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The 24-Hour Shift: Impact on Health and Safety

WEBThe history of shift work in America can be traced back to the beginnings of the industrial revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries. Factory owners realized that they …

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A Holistic Approach to Tactical Professional Wellness

WEBIndianapolis (IN) firefighters working on the fireground. By Jim Sorgi and Joey Vandever. ProTeam Tactical Performance. Firefighters deserve to receive the …

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Mutual Aid Does Not Need to Be a Mutual Mess

WEBFollowing is a list of discussion points for fire departments to consider for creating an environment in which mutual aid plays an integral role in positive outcomes.

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Principles of Patient Consent: Understanding a "Durable Power of

WEBEMS field providers are occasionally confronted in the field with legal documents that allow someone to grant consent for health care on behalf of a patient.

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North Jersey Firefighters Kept Busy with Multiple Fires

WEBPhotos by Ron Jeffers. Firefighters faced multiple-alarm fires in two Hudson County (NJ) municipalities during the evening of March 7, 2022, spurring calls to fire companies from …

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US Airways Flight 1549: New Jersey Rescue Operations

WEBOn January 15, 2009, at 1530 hours, US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320, made an emergency landing in the middle of the Hudson River, abeam of the NY Waterways …

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Jersey City (NJ) Fire Hero Remembered on 25th Anniversary of …

WEBOn the morning of March 20, 2018, members gathered in front of 411 Palisade Avenue to remember Firefighter Carlos Negron on the 25th anniversary of his …

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Union City (NJ) Fire Burns Structure, Church; Child Dies, Father …

WEBFueled by winds, a fast-moving fire burned a mixed-occupancy building in Union City, New Jersey, killing and young child and leaving the father severely burned.

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Firefighters Battle Four-Alarm Union City (NJ) Fire

WEBPhotos by Ron Jeffers. A fire in an occupied three-story, wood-frame corner dwelling continued to spread via void spaces and through the roof for several hours in …

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