A Message from the Family of Ed Wiebe

The family of Ed Wiebe wishes to express their sincere appreciation to the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic and Emergency personnel for their many acts of kindness and generosity over the last few days.

The love and support from Ed’s co-workers, family and friends has been truly comforting.

We wish to thank the excellent medical and nursing staff of the HSC ER and SICU for their care and compassion.

Our prayers go out to the families of Harold Lessard and Tom Nichols.  Words cannot express the sorrow we feel for them in this difficult time.

Ed remains in critical condition and will be undergoing surgery again today, Friday February 9^th.

Although on a ventilator, he is able to respond to questions and even give us an occasional smile.  We continue to be optimistic that he will recover and go on to work in a truly rewarding career as a fire fighter.

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A Message from the Wife of Lionel Crowther

First of all, thank you all for your support. The steady stream of firefighters and paramedics through Lionel's room is helping him through this difficult time. We really appreciate you taking the time to come up to see him, as well as your patience in the waiting room during those times when he's been resting or with medical staff.

Lionel was in surgery today - getting skin grafts on the back of his hands, as well as on his forearms, biceps, and lower abdomen. The grafts came from both his legs. Lionel is resting now and will be most of Saturday. He'd love to see visitors again starting Sunday.

We'll continue sending updates. Again, thank you for your support. It means the world to us.

Very best,

Joanna Crowther

“ It Hurts so much, I Can’t feel it anymore”  - Recovering with the help of CISM

A Critical Incident can have a far reaching influence, be it in the lives of the firefighters and paramedics on scene, to  the personnel in station listening to the radio communications, to the families of those directly involved and to the entire fire and paramedic family and their significant others. The magnitude of the loss of our brothers can be seen and felt in the lives of ordinary citizens of all walks of life regardless of social status, wealthy or poor. Everyone has a need to process their grief; some will do it quietly and some will be more public.

With many thanks to the UFFW for their support, the information provided here is meant to help all personnel, their wives, husbands, children and friends. When emergency personnel are experiencing critical incident stress, it is usually their significant others who become aware of and recipient of the effects of stress.  

I encourage all who read these lines to share and discuss the ideas with those around them.  Joe Seewald CISM Program Administrator  795-7117

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