Tag Archives: balance

With pay rates being what they are for Emergency Responders, it can be difficult to earn enough to cover our bills (even with multiple jobs), let alone pay off debt. But once you start to get into debt, that debt can pile up like a wreck on Interstate-84. Seriously, have you seen how people drive on that road?

Rules of the fireground can help you back at the firehouse and at home (even if you’re not a firefighter).   These five rules are short and simple, on the verge of obvious but they’re crucial to the survival of every working firefighter. They aren’t meant to be read out of a handbook while in the heat of combat, but ...

Working on the road at all hours with few, if any, defined breaks to refuel is a recipe for nutritional disaster for Emergency Responders. For many of us, the old saying “You are what you eat.” shows up in how we feel, how we look and how we work.

RescueDigest Podcast Episode 2 The RescueDigest Audio Podcast brings you news, interviews and tips you can use to make your life in emergency services a little easier and help you in your job protecting the members of your community.   [powerpress] In this episode, The care and feeding of the Career / Family Dynamic, Using Tactical Tarps to Coordinate and ...

  Emergency Services Fitness: Get Fit to Save Lives   Goal:  To ensure your safety and ability to perform your job in emergency services: a physically taxing profession.   Although we’re in the profession of protecting and helping the public, we too often neglect ourselves and our bodies. In order to provide the services we’re sworn to provide to the ...

The Easiest Way to be a Life Saver Goal: To recognize the opportunities that arise in emergency services to provide true care for others, especially when it seems like a waste of your training and expertise to do so. “You often help your patients the most when you think you’re doing the least.”  This advice was given to me as ...

Career and Family Life, Inextricably Linked. The Toughest Family Questions GOAL: Improve Emergency Responders’ health, safety and performance on the job.  We often talk about our separate lives. We call it Career and Family, but in emergency services, like the military, there is a very special dynamic between the two. By the nature of what we do, people in our Career ...

  Keynote presentations are the movie trailers of EMS. They show the good, the bad, the ugly. They can show us the inspiring, the terrifying, and the catch you by the heart and throat moments. Day after day emergency personnel the world over go to work, and take it one call at a time. Gear is checked, trucks are maintained, ...