15,334
Medical Calls
3,354
Fires
752
Public Assists
161
Responders
Peer support groups in fire departments across the United States have been organized to help fire fighters cope with the stresses and traumas they encounter on a daily basis. With all the awareness and newly organized support groups, why aren’t more fire fighters seeking help for PTSD or other behavioral health problems?
Help Is Out There, Why Aren’t Fire Fighters Asking For It?
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Your job as a fire fighter is full of stressful and traumatic events that can build up if these incidents aren’t addressed and talked about. Reports of post-t
Because we are the helpers, not the helpees. Getting some of our folks to go to a PTSD program has been like pulling teeth, but to a person, each one of them said it saved their lives, and their marriages.
What do you do as outreach? It seems this would be great for other firefighters to know about
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Ohio awards $1.1 million to help protect firefighters' health
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More than 100 Ohio fire departments will share $1.1 million in grants intended to help protect firefighters from carcinogens and other health hazards encountered in their work.
It's a start!
I agree. However $1.1 million seems like a very modest amount.
Good for Ohio. Hopefully it continues.
Judge sides with San Antonio firefighters union
mysanantonio.com
A local judge denied the request from a political action committee seeking to prevent the City Council from calling a charter amendment election at its Thursday meeting.
The city was named as a defendant in the lawsuit, although it’s not accused of having done anything wrong. Segovia and other city officials, however, were seated behind the plaintiff’s counsel at Wednesday’s hearing — a visual representation of the distaste between fire union representatives and city officials. HOW COULD ANY CITY OFFICIALS NOT LIKE THEIR OWN FIRERIGHTERS?
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OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SERVICE
In Tampa, as with other major American cities, the evolution from all volunteer to career fire companies occurred due to the arrival of steam technology. Tampa’s first organized volunteer fire department was founded in1884. Seven “bucket brigades” were organized to serve the city. On May 10, 1895, the city council passed ordinance #307 authorizing Tampa’s first professional, paid fire department. A. J. Harris was named chief to preside over 22 fire fighters in five stations at an annual budget of $18,000. The paid firefighters worked in the stations for ten to twelve days at a time. Most of the firefighters lived near their duty stations and were permitted to go home for meals, provided they could return within one hour. Their salary was equivalent to that of police patrol officers, about $600 a year. From May 10, 1895, forward the fire department began to evolve. First the “bucket brigades” were slowly replaced by hand operated pumpers pulled to the scene by the firefighters. Fire hydrants and steam engines were introduced to do the work of pumping water to firefighter’s hoses. With the introduction of steam engines came the requirement of horses to pull the extremely heavy apparatus. read more
The IAFF Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health Treatment and Recovery is a one-of-a-kind addiction treatment facility specializing in PTSD for IAFF members – and IAFF members only – who are struggling with addiction, PTSD other related behavioral health challenges to receive the help they need in taking the first steps toward recovery. It is a safe haven for members to talk with other members who have faced or overcome similar challenges.
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