Recognizing and Addressing Burnout Before it Burns You

Published on August 4, 2022

First responders – including volunteer firefighters – face physically, mentally, and emotionally taxing work. It’s the nature of the job, which consistently has you putting the needs of the community before your own. This often exposes emergency responders to potentially threatening situations. And the effects of the constant and continuous exposure to these stressors over the course of a fire service career will start to pop up in different aspects of life.

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