Pleasant Grove Fire Department aims to tackle stigmas of mental health within the fire service
Within the fire service, it has often been a stigma not to talk about mental health and to hide issues one is facing away.
and last updated 2021-01-05 20:14:43-05
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah â Within the fire service, it has often been a stigma not to talk about mental health and to hide issues one is facing away.
While that has been a problem across the country, many are working to change it.
âIâve been in the service for 30 years⦠so Iâve seen a fair amount of stuff,â Deputy Chief Andrew Engemann of the Pleasant Grove Fire Department said. âA lot of times, some of that stuff doesnât hit you till later on. You could be a week later, a month later, a year later for all it s worth, and all of a sudden that incident comes back to you and it hits you in a different way.â