The widow of an Indian River County battalion chief who succumbed to PTSD is working to prevent it from happening to others.
Behavioral Health Resources
- How Firefighters Can Manage Stress
- Martin, Tran, Buser: Depression & PTSD Shown to Be Strongest Predictors of Suicide
- Morrison: How Fire Departments are Addressing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Sendelbach: Assessing Risk Never Stops
- Lamplugh: Responding to Your Own Mental Health
- Lorber: Stress Awareness: Signs & Symptoms
- Ludwig: Suicides Among Fire & EMS Professionals
- Warren: When Firefighters Become Patients
- Ludwig: Suicides Among Firefighters and Paramedics
- Sendelbach: Continuing the Conversation
- Siarnicki: Who Responds to a Firefighter’s Worst Day?
- Kenny: Suicide Prevention: Do Something About It
- Wilmoth: Can We Talk?
- Video: Suicide in the Fire Service: Saving Firefighters
- Video: Soaring Firefighter Suicides Focus of Documentary