The America we know includes a support network from first responders. The America you may not know about is the trauma first responders experience on a daily basis.
Jared Law is a fire engineer in Warner Robins, Georgia. He was recently in a room with fellow first responders practicing how they’d help a colleague in need. He was asked to make up a traumatic scenario and chose a real one. It was a call about a child with autism who’d lost his first job and took his own life. “I’ve been having a little bit of nightmares, having trouble getting something off my mind. There was nothing we could do. I’m having a hard time processing that,” Law said.
He said the discussion brought back a lot of feelings.
“You know, I’ve dealt with that already. I thought I’ve dealt with it. But then talking about it and going through it, I realize maybe I haven’t dealt with it," Law said.