A lack of medical and mental health resources is reflected throughout wildland fire management; similarly, many fire management programs lack access to scenarios to provide realistic training. TREXs can address these issues by incorporating thorough planning and providing quality experiential learning in a safe environment at every TREX event. As a TREX community we can – and should – leverage our visionary expertise to ‘lead up’ in the fire management community and better prepare all fire practitioners to competently respond to medical and mental health incidents/ emergencies and provide a psychologically safe environment for participants.
