Mental Health in the Fire Service

Episode 4- These Firefighters are hungry

Nik hill sits down with Shane Andreen, Kyle Bavasi, and Drew Griffin. The 3 of them recently attended a conference in Idaho put on by The F.O.O.L.S. Treasure Valley. https://www.treasurevalleyfools.com/ [https://www.treasurevalleyfools.com/] They share their experience and some of the lessons they plan to share with their department. Drew Griffin also shares about a nonprofit he started to support firefighters and their families, as well as the community he serves.

Tribe-What are we missing?

Shane Andreen and Nikolas Hill sit down to discuss the book Tribe, by Sebastian Junger, and what we are missing not only in the military, veteran, and first responder community, but in society as well.

Episode 2

In this episode, I sit down with Firefighter/Paramedic Chase Judd and Marine Corps Veteran and Firefighter/Paramedic Shane Andreen. We discuss the differences between the military and the fire service and how each of us got into our current professions. We really only begin to brush the surface of some of these topics but we plan on deeper and more refined dive in the future.

Mental Health in the Fire Service

In this episode of the Smoke Showin' Podcast, Nik Hill and Brad Garman sit down with Captain/Paramedic Tyler Sleater to discuss the direction and awareness within the fire service.  During our introduction, I mention this is episode 2, but it is in fact the first.