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Latest Articles In Firefighter Fitness And Health

Training
A Five-Step Air-Consumption Drill

Today, it’s no longer acceptable to just wait for your low-air alarm to sound; firefighters must know how long their SCBA will last under stressful fireground conditions. Chief Brian Schaeffer presents an air-consumption drill that can provide valuable information about how you breathe air on SCBA while also preparing your body for fireground combat.
(Wednesday, February 27, 2013) read
Tags: air consumption, air consumption rate, air management, bottle, drill, end-of-service time indicator, EOSTI, low-air alarm, SCBA, SCBA operating time, Firefighter Fitness and Health
Company & People News
The First Twenty Announces Program to Improve Firefighter Heart Health

The First Twenty, founded in 2008, seeks to limit heart-attack-related line of duty deaths amongst firefighters. It does this by providing a fitness and wellness system that will reach, educate, train, and motivate firefighters. Each functional area: Physical Fitness, Mental Fitness, and Nutrition can be accessed through web and mobile technology.
(Friday, February 15, 2013) read
Tags: Firefighter Fitness and Health
Firefighter Fitness and Health
Searching for Answers Following a Fellow Firefighter’s Suicide

Lt. Frank Fennell shares a deeply moving account of the struggle to cope with the suicide of a fellow firefighter.
(Friday, February 15, 2013) read
Tags: behavioral health, depression, firefighter suicide, suicide, Management and Leadership
Firefighter Fitness and Health
Building a Functional Fitness Program

To be effective, firefighter training must incorporate the actual skills, movements and activities that firefighters will perform on the fireground. Monte Egherman discusses this practice, called “specificity of training,” and provides a sample functional fitness course departments can use when implementing the concept into their fitness routine.
(Friday, February 15, 2013) read
Tags: acclimatization, Enduro-Strength First Alarm Hose-Pull, functional courses, functional fitness program, specificity of training, sports performance training
Firefighter Fitness and Health
Multiple Cardiac Arrests for One Firefighter

Jane Jerrard interviews Nick Gravina, a fit firefighter who suffered multiple heart stoppages due to a blood clot, but is back at work today. Gravina provides advice to firefighters on monitoring their own health.
(Monday, January 21, 2013) read
Tags: AED, blood clot, cardiac arrest, CPR, dehydration, diet, emergency department, heart attack, workers’ comp

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