A peer support group is serving those who spend their career serving others. 6th Alarm Peer Support has helped dozens of emergency personnel in and around Tippecanoe County. Talking through the trauma is a stigma that runs deep within the roots of being an emergency service personnel. “I've got 32 years in the fire service and early on you were pretty much told you were going to see these kinds of things when you signed onto the job so you just need to toughen up, suck it up and that's the way it was,” said Lafayette Assistant Fire Chief Mike Hieatt. Hieatt is the Executive Director of Sixth Alarm Peer Support. He has seen first hand how that method isn't helpful. “We were lacking in resources to help firefighters and EMS deal with the trauma and mental health issues that they deal with every day on emergency runs,” said Hieatt.