Episode 348: Emergency Services and Mental Health: A Conversation with Rick Bucher
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🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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In this episode, Mike Glover interviews Rick Bucher, a retired paramedic, firefighter, and technical rescue professional. Rick discusses Rick's rapid career advancement, mental health challenges, and his book "Flame and Fortune: How the Fire Service Almost Killed Me," which advocates for mental health support in the fire service and public safety. Rick also shares his experience at Fieldcraft Survival's Winter Mobility Experience, and the importance of being prepared on the road during the winter months.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's going on guys welcome back to the full graph survival podcast got a host Rick |
| 0:17.7 | Thanks for being on the podcast man, you bet thanks around me |
| 0:22.0 | Um, so we just went through mobility experience and you were a great help because you have a background |
| 0:29.3 | in EMS has an EMS professional, but also as a firefighter right? |
| 0:34.0 | Yeah, I was I was a firefighter paramedic and I did technical rescue in Scottsdale, Arizona for 27 years |
| 0:40.8 | 27 years |
| 0:42.8 | Yeah, so imagine 27 years in Scottsdale, Arizona, you've seen some stuff |
| 0:48.0 | Uh, yeah, I have, um, you know to kind of jump to it, you know, I retired almost three years ago |
| 0:55.6 | Actually three years ago this month. Yeah |
| 0:59.1 | Um, and I kind of I sat down and tried to figure out how many calls I'd run over the course of my career and it's over 16,000 |
| 1:07.0 | Wow, and don't get me wrong. That's not 16,000, you know fires with burning people in that |
| 1:17.6 | But even just a small percentage of 16,000 is a lot of stuff. Yeah, so yeah, you're right. Yeah, that's crazy |
| 1:25.3 | So I'm I'm sharing yeah, I often talk about |
| 1:29.3 | firefighter paramedic EMT professionals |
| 1:33.5 | Um, a lot of |
| 1:35.7 | Statistics are known about law enforcement officers because whether it's scrutiny or or just organizational |
| 1:43.2 | history |
| 1:44.6 | There's a lot of statistics on what they go through and |
| 1:49.6 | You know officer involved shootings OAS |
| 1:52.5 | But firefighters are very different because they are |
| 1:57.4 | arriving often after the trauma |
| 2:00.7 | Um, or the act has been conducted and a lot of times you guys see things that |
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