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May 13, 2020

Take Time to focus on Mental Health

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 […]

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May 13, 2020

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 […]

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May 12, 2020

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 […]

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April 28, 2020

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 […]

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April 23, 2020

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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