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Firefighter mental health is crucial. This week, James Rychard and Christopher Heaton-Leach discuss how a fire service's culture can affect its firefighters, and the latest Fire Fighting in Canada podcast focuses on resilient minds. Check it out!
- Brittani Schroeder, Editor
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The governments of Ontario and Canada are investing $64 million to strengthen the province’s wildland fire program.
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South Stormont Fire and Rescue in Ontario received a $23,796 grant from Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation of Canada.
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The BC NDP have committed to expanding presumptive cancer coverage for firefighters if they win the provincial election.
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The N.W.T. Coroner Service is recommending the territory’s Department of Environment and Climate Change ensure all of its fire fighting crew leaders and supervisors have what it calls “danger tree assessor” training, after a wildland firefighter was killed by a falling tree last year.
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A volunteer firefighter’s experience is something very different, and that is the real story Ian McLaren shares in this memoir. Not My Emergency recounts 21 years of balancing the role a volunteer firefighter, school teacher/principal, husband and father in small town Alberta. McLaren recounts many memorable calls, but the book is more focused on the dichotomy of trying to make the difficult transition from ‘regular life’ to emergency scenes and back again while maintaining sanity.
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Toxicity in the fire service can represent people, organizational behaviour and dynamics, and the department itself. When toxicity invades the day-to-day working environment, it has the propensity to create havoc: long-term stress leaves, high turnover, increased anxiety and depressive conditions, and even suicidal ideation.
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Mark Giles shares the story of a long-time firefighter from Mexico and their key contribution to a successful 25-year, international relationship.
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Have you ever wondered how to be a better cook? Contrary to what some celebrity chefs would have you believe, you don’t need to have had a food-loving Grandma teaching you how to cook classic recipes from when you were still in diapers, and you don’t need to have served ten years of hard labour under a Michelin-starred French chef in Paris.
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Founded in 1995, the Wilmot Heritage Fire Brigades Museum has grown from a group of seven retired firefighters to a membership of over 80, with aspirations to expand even further.
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| FIRE FIGHTING IN CANADA: THE PODCAST |
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On the latest edition of Fire Fighting in Canada: The Podcast, Ret. Fire Chief Tom DeSorcy is joined by Steve Fraser, the co-author of the proactive mental health awareness training program for first responders Resilient Minds and a retired captain with Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services. The pair discuss the past, present and future Resilient Minds and outline how firefighters can introduce mental wellness training into their departments.
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