Fire Lieutenant Doug Hexel has spent 13 years running calls, pulling patients out of rubble, and training the next generation of paramedics. He loves the job. He just refuses to let it become his whole identity.
Doug is a career fire officer, urban search and rescue specialist, paramedic, and sworn New York State peace officer. He is a fire, EMS, and law enforcement instructor for New York State, sits on the state’s Pediatric EMS Advisory Committee, and holds technician-level certifications in hazmat, rope, confined space, trench, swiftwater, and collapse rescue.
Doug joins hosts Lt. David Dachinger (Ret.) and Bonnie Rumilly, LCSW/EMT, to talk about:
• The line between resilience and suffering in silence
• Hypervigilance and what years of bad calls do to us
• “Death by rescue” and why medical comes first in technical rescue
• How leaders build mental readiness into every shift
• Telling a crew “it’s not your fault,” and meaning it
• Training rescuers for outcomes they can’t change
• Loving the job without living it
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