Facing Fire, Blood, and Brokenness: What No One Prepares You For
There are things they don’t tell you in the academy. They teach you how to run drills, manage trauma, and read the scene. But they don’t prepare you for the weight that lives behind those doors of the real world. The stuff that doesn’t wash off with the uniform. The sounds, the smells, the sights that stay with you long after the sirens go quiet. Every first responder, if they’ve been in this work long…
