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Product ReviewHexArmor Elite EXT Rescue Extrication Gloves
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BlogThe Importance of Cooperative Training
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HistoryThe Upstairs Lounge Fire, 24 June 1973
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BlogBlack Eyes Among Us
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Health and WellnessFirefighter Therapy 101
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HistoryThe Hartford Circus Fire 6 July 1944
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PodcastsEp002: Don Prince – The 11th Hour Trauma Retreat, A Jump-Start Toward Healing
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Product ReviewWhen Things Go Bad – 5 Disk DVD Training Set
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BlogThe NFPA Police
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BlogDark Humor: Line in the Sand
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BlogNFPA Passes All Quint Fire Service
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BlogThoughtful Leadership Series – Intro
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BlogProBar Sarcasm
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BlogThe Successful Short-Staffed Engine
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BlogVolunteer Rebuttal to “The Media Damage to the Fire Service”
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BlogFive Steps for Mentoring Success
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Health and WellnessSuicide Risk Factors
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BlogFive Monkeys, One Banana
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BlogThe Media Damage to the Fire Service
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BlogPortraits of an Emergency
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BlogSalvage?! But I’m Here To Save Lives!
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PodcastsEp006: Leckey Harrison – Raise Your Resilience
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BlogWhy Are Your Boots So Shiny?
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BlogPeshtigo, Wisconson. What Do You Know?
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BlogPride, Where does it come from?
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BlogA Fire Service Movement…An Open Letter to the Station Pride Community
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BlogMarketing your Volunteer Fire Department
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BlogExplorers, The Next Generation of Fire Service Warriors.
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BlogThe Untouchables.
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BlogNot Accepting Mediocrity
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BlogUnused Fire Gear PFAS Test Results Are “Thousands of Times Higher” than EPA Drinking Water Standards
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Health and WellnessFireStrong.org
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Health and WellnessChappy’s Weight Loss Solution Chapter-2
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Health and WellnessFirefighter Anxiety
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Health and Wellness3 Reasons Why it’s OK to have Dark Humor
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Health and Wellness
Firefighter Therapy 101
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Health and WellnessIs it PTSD or Is it Something Else?
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Health and Wellness
Chappy’s Weight Loss Solution Part 3
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Health and WellnessSleep Deprivation
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BlogAre Volunteer Firefighters at Greater Risk of PTSD?
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PodcastsEp010: Jeff Dill – Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance
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PodcastsEp011: Dr. Tania Glenn – Treating First Responders with PTSD and More
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PodcastsRescue the Rescuer Show Episode 17 Ben Vernon
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PodcastsEp008: Dan Willis – Create a Bulletproof Spirit
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PodcastsEp004: CHECKPOINT ONE – Move Past Trauma
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Podcasts
Ep006: Leckey Harrison – Raise Your Resilience
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PodcastsEp007: Dan DeGryse – Mental Health Fitness for Duty
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PodcastsEp001: Stephen Kavalkovich – The Rescuer Who Needed The Rescue
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PodcastsEp009: David Wiklanksi – I’d rather you be annoyed that I woke you up…
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Podcasts
Ep000: Stephen Kavalkovich – We Heal Through Connection and Connect Through Struggle
Latest Articles
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A new peer-reviewed study published recently in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology highlighting Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) content in fire station dust. The study was conducted in 15 fire stations throughout Massachusetts, including Boston. The result of this dust study provides further evidence and credibility to a fire gear [...] -
Author: Frank Docimo As a fire officer you have been given the responsibility under the law to understand, guide and direct a hazardous material emergency. 29 CFR 1910.120(q) as well as HAZMAT IC training requirements under Federal, OSHA and NFPA 472 address the minimum training requirement for anyone commanding a hazardous material incident. The law states: IC’s who [...] -
In a recent commercial aired at half-time during last Saturday’s Notre Dame Football game; The University of Notre Dame puts the Fire Service on notice that they’ve been studying our fire gear and something is amiss. See here. and below. We’ve reported fairly-widely on this topic, and we even broke this story almost 3 years ago (here) when Diane Cotter, [...]
