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  • Taking Firefighter Fitness to the Next Level

    Being physically fit is important for every member of a fire department. At the Lake Forest, IL, Fire Department, fitness and the overall health of its firefighters has become a top priority.

    Article • May 5th, 2010

  • Keeping Your Health and Fitness Resolutions

    If you are like most people in this country, odds are you made at least one New Year's resolution aimed at improving some aspect of your health. Whether it is losing weight, improving your fitness, eating better or controlling a chronic health...

    Article • May 5th, 2010

  • Fitness Success for Firefighters

    The time to make resolutions is behind us, and for many, those resolutions may be in full swing. However, for many people who made health and fitness a goal for the new year, it is easy to fall off the wagon. For some of you, this may be the first time...

    Article • March 31st, 2010

  • Cancer and the Fire Service

    There has been much debate and conflicting evidence regarding whether firefighters have a higher risk of developing cancer than the general public. The reasons for this is are many: cause and effect is difficult to prove in medical studies, cancer is...

    Article • March 31st, 2010

  • Hepatitis C Vaccine Is Close

    In February 2009, Firefighter/EMT Ferdinando "Fred" Pierno of Martin County Fire Rescue in Florida died from complications associated with Hepatitis C that he contracted on the job. Fred was surrounded by approximately a dozen brother firefighters at...

    Article • March 31st, 2010

  • Preventing Cardiovascular Disease

    This is the last column in a series devoted to addressing the number-one killer in firefighters: heart disease. Previously, we discussed why firefighters are at a higher risk of cardiac death, why firefighters with underlining cardiovascular disease...

    Article • March 3rd, 2010

  • We Danced With The Devil: One Firefighter’s Cancer Chronicles
    We Danced With The Devil: One Firefighter’s Cancer Chronicles

    An exceprt from this article appears in the December 2009 issue of Firehouse Magazine.Editor's Note: Chief Trevino's share a brief story about his good friend Dave Jacobs in this article. Mr. Jacobs lost his battle to cancer before the article could...

    Article • November 11th, 2009

  • Cardiovascular Disease in Firefighters: Protecting Our Own

    July 26, 2006: A 43-year-old male firefighter suffers symptoms of heat strain while fighting a structure fire in Illinois. He cools down in rehab and his crew finds him dead at his residence hours later after he failed to answer his phone. The cause...

    Article • November 4th, 2009

  • It's Not About the Motorcycle
    It's Not About the Motorcycle

    If you get to go home to your family at the end of the run or shift, remember those that will never see their loved one walk through their front door.

    Article • August 26th, 2009

  • Cardiovascular Disease in Firefighters: Who Is at Risk?

     

    Article • July 22nd, 2009

  • Let's Talk About Cancer

    If you ever hear the words that you have cancer you want to hear them as soon as possible; early detection increases your odds on beating many forms of cancer.

    Article • June 19th, 2009

  • Cardiovascular Disease in Firefighters: Who Is at Risk?

    Article • May 1st, 2009

  • Cardiovascular Disease in Firefi ghters: Defining the Problem

    This new column is intended to give readers the most current information regarding medical studies and standards in a coherent and relevant manner as it applies to the fire service. The hope is that this information can be used to help keep...

    Article • April 1st, 2009

  • Fire-d Up for Fitness

    Optimal fitness is a combination of lifestyle, nutrition and habits, but it cannot be reached without an appropriate level of physical fitness.

    Article • March 6th, 2009

  • Are You Fit?

    Article • February 28th, 2009

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