LibGuides: Firefighting: Wildland Urban Interface: Wildland Firefighters' Health

This page looks at the issues affecting the health of wildland firefighters, the research investigating the effects, and the measures being taken to protect, preserve, and improve the health of those engaged with responding to an ever growing annual number of wildland fires.

At the IFSI Library

Wildland Urban Interface Firefighter Health Resources on the Web

Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke Infographic
From the Chest Infections and the Disaster Response Network and the American College of Chest Physicians, 2023
CDC/NIOSH Fighting Wildfires – Publications and Resources
This site provides a list of NIOSH-published and NIOSH-authored publications on wildland fire fighting safety including:
Wildland Firefighter Health: Some Burning Questions,
Wildland Fire Fighting Safety and Health,
COVID-19 and Wildland Firefighters,
and Noise Exposure Among Federal Wildland Fire Fighters
Characterization of inhalation exposures at a wildfire incident during the Wildland Firefighter Exposure and Health Effects (WFFEHE) Study
"Wildland firefighters (WFFs) are exposed to many inhalation hazards working in the wildland fire environment. To assess occupational exposures and acute and subacute health effects among WFFs, the wildland firefighter exposure and health effects study collected data for a 2-year repeated measures study."
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Kathleen M Navarro, Kenneth Fent, Alexander C Mayer, Scott E Brueck, Christine Toennis, Brandon Law, Juliana Meadows, Deborah Sammons, Skylar Brown, Characterization of inhalation exposures at a wildfire incident during the Wildland Firefighter Exposure and Health Effects (WFFEHE) Study, Annals of Work Exposures and Health, Volume 67, Issue 8, October 2023, Pages 1011–1017, https://doi.org/10.1093/annweh/wxad046