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Meet the fireman
by
Jeffries, Joyce
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Jeffries, Joyce. People around town
in
Fire extinction Juvenile literature.
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Fire fighters Juvenile literature.
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Fire extinction.
2013
A simple look at the day-to-day job of a fireman.
The Effect of Stress Management Programs on Physiological and Psychological Components of Stress: The Influence of Baseline Physiological State
by
Hoareau, Violette
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Dutheil, Frédéric
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Godin, Christelle
in
Behavioral Science and Psychology
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Fire fighters
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Health Psychology
2021
Military personnel are particularly exposed to stressful events, and overexposure to stress is both physically and mentally unhealthy. While stress management programs, such as the Tactics of Optimized Potential (TOP) and Heart Coherence (HC) have been implemented, their efficiency remains to be evaluated. The objective of this randomized control trial was to evaluate the effectiveness of the two programs among a young male population of 180 military fire fighter recruits. Based on two psychological, and one physiological measurement, namely heart rate variability (HRV), we found that both TOP and HC programs significantly increased HRV. This is promising as we know that higher HRV is consistent with better health, in most cases. Moreover, the TOP program significantly reduced perceived stress and negative mood, unlike the HC program. Combining these results, we conclude that while both TOP and HC programs influence physiological measurements, only the TOP modifies psychological evaluations. Finally, we distinguished the effects of the programs on two samples characterized by their HRV level. For the low HRV group, both programs tended to increase their HRV level, while for the high HRV group neither program had a significant effect.
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Energy Expenditure of Disaster Relief Operations Estimated Using a Tri-Axial Accelerometer and a Wearable Heart Rate Monitor
2023
The management of nutrition, food, and health for disaster relief personnel is one of the crucial aspects for carrying out effective rescue activities during large-scale natural disasters, such as a big earthquake, flooding, and landslide following heavy rainfall or man-made disasters, such as widespread fire in industrial areas. Rescue workers, such as fire fighters and rescue teams who work on the disaster relief operations, have to work long, hard, and irregular hours that require energy (both intake and expenditure), with especially altered eating patterns. Reliable estimates of the energy expenditure (TEE) for such disaster relief operations have not been fully established. Here, we propose to clarify the energy expenditure for each type of large-scale disaster activity conducted by fire fighters. Thirty fire fighters (survey participants in this research) who participated in the simulation training of large-scale disaster activities wore tri-axial accelerometers and heart rate monitors during training; and, post-training, 28 fire fighters submitted complete activity record tables. An estimation formula combining tri-axial accelerometer and heart rate monitor data was used. Additionally, energy expenditure per hour (excluding resting energy expenditure: REE) (per average body weight of participants) was calculated for 10 types of large-scale disaster response activities. We propose utilization of these data as a reference value for examining the TEE of firefighting and rescue operations in future large-scale disasters.
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Fire engines
by
Rockwell, Anne F
in
Fire engines Juvenile literature.
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Fire fighters Juvenile literature.
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Fire engines.
1993
Describes the parts of a fire engine and how fire fighters use them to fight fires.
Human Factors Challenges in Emergency Management
2017,2014
The fire and emergency services is a particularly large industry - in Australia alone it employs 250,000 personnel - yet there is very little by way of published human factors books addressing this sector directly. This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research that has been conducted within Australia, funded by the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre. As Karl Weick once commented, emergency events do not 'play by the rules' and these research chapters tell us something about a potential future world of work that is highly dynamic, interdependent and for which improvisation and critical thinking and problem-solving are necessary pre-requisites.
Firefighters in my community
by
Bellisario, Gina, author
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Myer, Ed, illustrator
in
Fire fighters Juvenile literature.
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Fire extinction Juvenile literature.
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Fire fighters.
2019
\"With upbeat text and playful illustrations, readers can follow along as a class meets a firefighter and learns what firefighters do.\"--Publisher's description.
How overseas fire agencies recruit for diversity
2018
The number of female firefighters in the urban sector in Australia is less than five per cent, despite good efforts to broaden the catchment for recruitment. How can this be improved using best-practice recruitment?
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Firefighters A to Z
by
Demarest, Chris L
in
Fire extinction Juvenile literature.
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Fire fighters Juvenile literature.
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Fire extinction.
2000
An alphabetic look at a firefighter's day.
How overseas fire agencies recruit for diversity
2018
The number of female firefighters in the urban sector in Australia is less than five per cent, despite good efforts to broaden the catchment for recruitment. How can this be improved using best-practice recruitment?
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