Two-week work cycles. Shifts that can last up to 18 hours. Sleeping in tents or gymnasiums far from home. Dangerous and unpredictable work environments.
Those are the working conditions for many wildland firefighters across the country as Canada contends with a record wildfire season.
There's little doubt this year's wildfires and the efforts to fight them are affecting firefighters' mental health, said Lemon."The length of the fire season, the intensity, the long-term drought that we've been experiencing, that all leads to more complex fires, bigger fires. Those will all undoubtedly have an impact on people."
It has also seen"a lot" of psychological injuries and workers taking time off due to psychological health issues since the service began tracking those numbers in 2021, she said. Seasoned, full-time wildland firefighters are being paid at"the lowest rung in government," Finch said, with wages starting at $26 per hour. That's causing some veterans to leave for the private sector or other careers, while holding others back from considering wildland firefighting as a long-term career option, he said.
A study into mental disorders among firefighters deployed to the fire that ravaged Fort McMurray, Alta., in 2016 found 40 per cent met the criteria for post traumatic stress disorder, 30 per cent for anxiety disorder, and 28.5 per cent for depressive disorder. The study looked at all types of firefighters, not just those focused on wildfires.
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