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Firefighter Health Assessment

In a job where fitness is key to staying safe and saving lives, a healthy heart, strength, agility and general health are top priorities for firefighters. To help ensure firefighters are prepared for what their job requires, College of Public Health and Human Sciences alumna Karlie Moore routinely performs fitness assessments with local fire departments.Firefighter-Health-Assessments-Synergies3 “I learned that many firefighters are dying of heart attacks and that the injury rate is four times higher than any other physically demanding profession,” she says. “I felt like more needed to be done to help them reduce their risk of injury and heart attack.”

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