Every firefighter in the country wants to be fit for duty. Firefighter health, wellness, and fitness is at the core of operational readiness, resilience, and long-term career sustainability, but many ...

Maintaining peak physical well-being isn’t a choice for members of the fire service. It’s a prerequisite. The demands of our life-saving profession include maneuvering heavy equipment, lugging hoses ...

When it comes to the selection and hiring of our next generation of firefighters, physical fitness should never be left to chance. The fireground doesn’t care how you look in uniform or what you bench ...

Researchers examining 6 years of firefighter line-of-duty deaths (LODD) found that the health, fitness and wellness of the firefighters contributed to more than 50 percent of the fatalities. The study ...