PORTLAND, Maine — Firefighters are trained to show up to calls, assess the situation, and quickly help those in trouble, all while putting aside any feelings about what they see or experience. But it’s not just fires they respond to; it’s suicides, child abuse cases, shootings, overdoses, and fatal crashes, to name a few. Long...Read More
BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio — Something that is a growing concern in the U.S. is mental health and first responders and public servants. Thursday, a speaker is coming to Belmont County to speak about trauma, mental health, and support. Tom Bolland has been a firefighter for 29 years and he is coming to spread awareness on the...Read More
By Casey Krautkramer Veteran firefighter Scott Geiselhart of Frazee, Minn., gave presentations last Wednesday and Thursday in Stratford about how he survived methamphetamine, post-traumatic street disorder and attempted suicide. His speech on Wednesday in the Stratford High School gym was directed at any area police, fire, EMS, dispatch, corrections, coroners or chaplins in attendance. Stratford...Read More
“When I started we had a kind of a tradition that you sent the new guy in, or new girl in, to do all the dirty work, or all the unfavorable work, so to speak,” Brian Thompson with the Sutter County Fire Department says in a scene from the new documentary “Yes, There is Hope”...Read More
Matthew Rau was five years old when his family moved into government housing at a U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service ranger station. Some of his earliest memories are waking up in the mornings and seeing wildland firefighters exercising around the compound. He studied their work ethic and camaraderie and knew from that young age...Read More
Bad news out of Minnesota this morning as 2 Burnsville Police Officers and a Firefighter-Paramedic were reportedly shot and killed while operating at a domestic/hostage situation (with kids inside) at a home early this morning. Units responded to the home in Burnsville, Dakota County (just south of Minneapolis) Minnesota early this morning. According to local...Read More
