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Chapter 3. Firefighting is undoubtedly a dangerous profession. Worry and fear are natural feelings we all have in the fire life, and most of us are very familiar with. But there are ways we can keep worry and fear from ruling our hearts and minds.
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If your anxiety symptoms are overwhelming you in any way, seek a local counselor or therapist for personal counseling sessions. Churches often offer low cost, affordable private counseling.
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Read Fire Wife Heather Baker’s story in Chapter 3, “February 6th, 2012: The Incident of My Fire Wife Career”
More Articles From Our Online Resource Library
Another Bad Call
ANOTHER. BAD. CALL. Unfortunately, we don't always know when our firefighters have had a bad call. Sometimes they fly right under the radar, getting hidden in a compartment somewhere they didn’t even know they had. Our husbands are almost constantly exposed to...
Don’t Hoard the Trauma
You don’t have to hoard the trauma - throw it out. Well, maybe it’s not as easy as throwing it out… but we do have the ability to fight trauma head-on as it happens versus storing it away to grow into a bigger problem over time. Listen to this new way to look...
How To Watch a Fire Movie With Your Firefighter
Firefighter movies. You cannot escape them as a fire wife, nor should you in my opinion. Whether it's watching live burns on Youtube videos or the ritualistic watching of Ladder 49 or Backdraft (with all the commentary as to what's real and accurate and what's...
What to Say to Your Firefighter When He’s Had a Bad Call
You can feel the air turn tense before a word is even said. You know it was a bad shift. Something must have happened to make such a drastic change in your firefighter. Maybe he is angry, or silent, or sad....you just know something isn't right. Do you ask about it?...
When a Firefighter is Irritable, Grumpy, and Disengaged When He’s Home
This article is so important because we’ve all been there yet so few admit it and talk about it. There is no shame in relating to this or even sharing this post. You never know who is suffering and needs these words. Let’s just start with these words straight from the...
On September 11 Choose Your Positive Action
As members of the firefighting community, or any community of first responders, a day like September 11 is bound to make us feel a little differently than the general public. We've often heard wives and family members express a feeling of fear; fear...
Life, Death and Healing Hearts
{life and death reflections} I just had a more graphic conversation than normal about a run my husband took yesterday. A girl's hand was amputated in a car wreck and I couldn't resist asking if they recovered the limb. It's like some weird human drive that I just had...
Firefighters Feel
One of our Facebook followers recently shared with us an emotional open letter to the fire service from her husband. We're sharing with you now, from Amy and Scott Pascu. Thank you for sharing your heart and words. We live in Ohio and our Local 330 has...
Ebola: Whom shall I fear?
I'm not sure what to think of this Ebola thing. But clearly I am thinking. I wasn't sure I wanted to write this (yet) for our fire wife community. But then decided I must. If it's on my mind, and in my husband's training at the fire department and all over...
If It Were My Child
The last call I got from my husband last night was heart breaking. He was on a short break to warm up from being on a missing person hunt. In deep snow. In single digit temperatures. He didn't have to call me and possibly shouldn't have even taken that moment but...