Coping with crisis: Training aims to help first responders provide emotional support during trauma

Police officers and firefighters are usually the first to respond to a traumatic event, but chaplains aren’t far behind to lend emotional support to the people involved.
Chaplains say the deadly fire at the Royal Suite Lodge shows how important it is for people to have an outlet to share their stories. The morning of the fire, people who lived in the complex told harrowing accounts of neighbors jumping from the second and third stories trying to escape the flames.
“Particularly