ally the effects of those instances appear all at once. Delayed stress is when a single incident happens and the effects of that incident don’t appear for a while after. When relating to the emergency service, I think that the most common types of stresses are the acute and the accumulative.The very beginning of a firefighters career is a very stressful time in their lives. In order to get hired on by a fire department, you have to go through a series of tests and interviews. This can be an extremely long and drawn out process. A friend of mine went through three interviews, a background check, a psychological evaluation, and a physical. He was led to believe that he had the job and then all of a sudden he was told that he was no longer being considered for the position. At the scene of a call, the Captain, or person in charge, may feel acute stress because of his or her team’s performance. “One of the main things that stresses me out is when I don’t have enough resources or manpower to get the job done as accurately and efficiently as I think it should go. I may be bothered by this for a few hours, but I get usually get over it pretty quickly after the job is done” says Captain Louis Jones of the Winters Fire Department. “I do tend to blow up however, when I am training someone on the same thing over and over and over again and they never seem to get it. It is frustrating because...
