The COVID-19 pandemic has brought uncertainty as well as changes to lifestyle and fire/EMS operations that can have an emotional impact. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and now is a perfect time to focus on mental wellbeing for yourself and your crew. The following resources are available to help firefighters, EMS providers, and their […]
Balancing Science and Tactics in the Volunteer Fire Service
If you have spent any time around a volunteer fire department over the last few decades, you might have heard sayings like, “Put the wet stuff on the red stuff” or “We have never lost a foundation.” It is sad to say that for many years, statements like those were the culture of many organizations […]
Paramedics, EMTs are much more than ‘Ambulance Drivers’ | Letter
I’m responding to former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge’s guest column (“People protesting lockdown are not heroic,” May 7). I request that Ridge and anyone referring to the EMTs and paramedics who are out there risking their lives to provide care to those in need as ambulance drivers, please educate yourself regarding the educational level and […]
6 MA Fire Chiefs team up to tackle Pandemic Response
SALISBURY, Mass. — Six area fire departments – Newburyport, Salisbury, Amesbury, West Newbury, Merrimac and Newbury – recently banded together to make sure each had enough equipment and resources to fully confront the COVID-19 pandemic. Salisbury Fire Chief Scott Carrigan said the idea had been in the works for close to a month but when the […]
PPE Quality improvement: 4 Points of Focus
If we’ve learned anything during the COVID-19 pandemic as firefighters and fire officers, it’s that while perfect planning doesn’t always guarantee perfect outcomes, poor planning (or lack of planning) pretty much always results in poor outcomes. We’ve witnessed this at the state and federal levels across the U.S., and perhaps you’ve seen it in your […]
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