Top Ten Stressors
for Emergency Services
* Line of duty death or serious injury of a fellow
emergency worker
* Multi-Casualty incidents
* Suicide of a fellow emergency worker
* Serious injury or death of a civilian as a result of
operational procedures
* Significant events involving children as victims
* Loss of a victim's life following a prolonged or an
extraordinary rescue effort
* Incidents that attract excessive media interest
* Any incident with profound emotion
* Events where victim is a relative or known to rescuers
* Any incident where circumstances are so unusual or
distressing as to produce a high livel of immediate
emotional reaction