We all know how easy it can be to carry our jobs home with us. For those responding daily to calls of gun violence, reckless driving crashes and fires, the stress weighs extra heavy. The Milwaukee Fire Department is seeking answers in faith.
The Milwaukee Fire Department is building in a new support team for when emergency responders need some help of their own. "Our firefighters, our paramedics are seeing an unbelievably high number of incidents that involve horrible trauma to people," said Lipski. "Our folks won’t quit. They’ll keep going until they collapse."
With nowhere to go, that trauma can stick with emergency responders and linger.
"We are seeing, we hear this phrase, ‘compassion fatigue,’" said Lipski.
They don't have to carry the burden alone.