From the Editor…
We are pleased to release our third issue. As I get to work on the next issue, let me thank you for reading this one, and for what you do to protect our communities.
These digests, supported by our more comprehensive website, which contains even more digests and articles, more product showcases, as well as our archives, are all free – paid for with the support we receive from advertisers (and by us, at the moment).
Please forward our invitation to subscribe for free to your colleagues in the fire service. It will help us improve our alliances with fire service partners to not only bring you the most meaningful information, but increasingly better analysis of why that information is important.
Watch for us to expand our topic areas and bring on more writers and columns soon. As a bonus, your assistance in increasing readership will even further motivate two firefighter brothers (along with their marketing-savvy sister) to contribute positively to their fire service community across Canada. It may also help this ex-firefighter to feel more like he actually retired!
As I mention in my article on Insomnia in this issue, analytics revealed better reader response for articles with more personally relevant content, so we have re-balanced the number of articles (expanded experiential content) against the number of digests (summaries of research with links). Please don’t be shy about providing your feedback.
We’re interested in your news items. Please tell us about your announcements, your innovations, your best practices, recent calls and events, etc.
Recently, cancer replaced sudden cardiac events as the leading cause of death among firefighters. Cancer (especially early onset cancers) is also rising in the general population. As departments do everything they can to improve PPE and practices in the pursuit of improving firefighter health and wellness, we are looking toward personal behaviours that firefighters can incorporate to contribute to those departmental efforts.
We will be writing more on this soon. We need to do everything we can to stop cancer.
As I get to work on the next issue, let me thank you for reading this one, and for what you do to protect our communities.
Just a thought.
