Christy Warren is a retired fire captain from the Berkeley Fire Department in California with twenty-five years of service as a professional paramedic and eighteen years as a professional firefighter/paramedic.
After being diagnosed with PTSD in 2014, Christy retired from the fire service and since then, has become a triathlete, completed the Escape from Alcatraz swim five times, and earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Washington State University. She is a volunteer Peer at the West Coast Post-trauma Retreat and hosts the podcast The Firefighter Deconstructed.
Find her online at christyewarren.com
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