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While trench rescue and structural collapse were very suitable applications for some of our “heavy lifting” struts, the most common situation these might be seen or used in is for just that; heavy lifting. With that being said, I’m going to provide you with a simple approach to one of the more common uses of your heavy struts, the vehicle under ride. By Chad Roberts
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Preparing for, responding to, and recovering from larger, more destructive fires that threaten urban centres should become a standard practice for fire departments that live close to forested areas. With larger fires becoming common, implementing sound practices taken from fire fighting experts across Canada, and applying them to how fire leaders should be tackling fires, may prove to be the cutting edge needed in learning how to respond to these intense conditions.
By Kirk Hughes
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Flow is a term that has been around for decades, yet for the fire service, flow was best known only as a factor used in hydraulics, specifically for pumping evolutions. Now it’s relevant because it has been studied as a part of psychology courses in college or university and implemented as a tool for optimal performance. This article is going to explain the concept and why it is so important for the fire service industry. By James Rychard
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Mental Health: Self-Care for First Responders, 2nd Edition is a user-friendly handbook on common mental health challenges for first responders and helping professionals doing front-line work. The handbook includes information about identifying symptoms of stress, understanding different kinds of mental health issues, and strategies for engaging in self-care and trauma recovery. Topics covered include PTSD, chronic stress, vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, suicide, resiliency, and more.
Written to address the need for ongoing emotional support for society’s front-line workers, the second edition includes new material on organizational response to trauma, first-responder workplace culture, moral injury, stigmatization, as well as a revised self-care plan and new “Spotlight on Mental Health” boxes in which first responders across Canada share their story of mental health resiliency in the field.
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When needing to escape from the upper floors of a structure, using a rope bailout system may be an option to look at. The headfirst ladder dive was explored in our last issue as one way to do this, but if there is no ladder in place, what else can you do? Besides hanging and dropping, which can cause injury, the rope bailout is that other option. By Mark van der Feyst
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Post Traumatic Growth has been the beacon of positive outcomes since we first started hearing of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and its nefarious other relatives. was an obvious outcome to the process of healing. It made great common sense. I experience things that require recovery, that process is interrupted, and I develop PTSD. I work hard at healing and learning and growing, and I come out stronger in the end. Growing is the point, after all. By Nick Halmasy
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Sept. 28 – Oct. 1, 2022
Location: Prince Albert, Sask.
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