Austin Fire has spent at least $10 million on overtime every year since 2016 and is expected to exceed $20 million this year. The additional hours and responsibilities exacerbate an already stressful job.
also found 47% of U.S. firefighters have considered suicide, 19% have made an attempt and 16% have killed themselves.
Some of the issues firefighters come to Kruse include impaired sleep, post traumatic stress and most notably, anxiety. A firefighter’s anxiety may look different than a regular person’s anxiety, he said. Each person in the program goes through a training provided by the International Association of Fire Fighters, where they learn how to work through trauma and anxiety with their peers. The peers sometimes respond to crisis calls; other times, they’re just a friend for the firefighter to hang out with.
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