RIP to all First Responders who see it all. Some can't handle it and they end it all.
It's the side of law enforcement and emergency professions that you don't see, first responders dealing with struggling with emotional trauma, after the things they see day in and day out. They're the ones who run towards danger when we run away from it, but how do they cope with the things they...
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"There's always the old saying, we really do, we see people at their worst times," Captain Michael Van Luvender, with the Plains Township Fire Department, said.
"I was shot and had to take someone's life. But in that situation, I didn't have an alternative. I didn't have an opportunity to say should I not shoot? No, I had a woman that was killed innocently, I had two police officers hit, that were with me, and then I was shot," Speziale said.
"We are losing more firefighters to suicide than we are to line of duty deaths and this is obviously related to stress on the job," Acting State Fire Commissioner, Bruce Trego, said.
This trend holds true for police officers as well. According to the Ruderman Foundation, there were at least 103 firefighter suicides and 140 police officer suicides last year.
That's compared to 93 firefighters and 129 police officers who died in the line of duty.
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