Wildland Firefighter Health Effects Study- A Brief Overview

This video provides a brief overview of a new approach to examine the potential health effects that wildland firefighters may experience working on wildland fires. This effort is a collaboration between the National Institute for Occupation Safety and Health (NIOSH), the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service.
As you will see in the video, a NIOSH team actually goes into the field on a wildfire in Idaho to test members of the Sawtooth Interagency Hotshot Crew on potential impacts to their overall health, including effects to their hearts, lungs, kidneys, and hearing.
For more information on this study, please contact the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center (www.wildfirelessons.net/aboutus).
As results of this effort are made available, the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center will share them (www.wildfirelessons.net.)

[@davidmccandliss5242]

All I can say is... it's about time somebody took this seriously...

[@BrinkHouse]

This is going to massively benefit firefighters the world over in the future. I’m so happy to see this kind of study being done for the wildland fire sector, which often gets overlooked compared to municipal/structure side.

[@WildfirelessonsNet]

Thanks a TON to George Broyles and the folks at NIOSH (Kenneth Fent, Corey Butler and many others) for this work.

[@jillgregerson5378]

I’m writing a paper for Wildland Wildfire Control. This looks very important information. Thanks.

[@WanderingBeast]

looking forward to the results

[@jimwheeler2979]

When and where will the results be available?

[@WildfirelessonsNet]

Thanks for the question Jim. The work is actually ongoing, and results won't be available for some time. When they are available, we'll be working with George Broyles and folks from NIOSH to share the results. If you have specific questions in the meantime, please let us know and we'll get your question passed along.

[@RemoteMedicAdventures]

@@WildfirelessonsNet Any update on the results? As a Paramedic who's going out to support teams, I'm interested in your findings.

[@robertcoker4464]

Please see our data on this topic published in March of 2019: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30640843. More data to come from a multi state effort that we conducted over the summer across the Mountain West.