{"id":7706,"date":"2014-05-15T15:50:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T19:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=7706"},"modified":"2014-05-15T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T19:50:15","slug":"dan-degryse-86-firefighter-captain-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2014\/05\/15\/dan-degryse-86-firefighter-captain-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan DeGryse \u201986 &#8211; firefighter, captain, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2014\/05\/Dan-degryse-.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7707\" title=\"Dan degryse\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2014\/05\/Dan-degryse-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a>Dan DeGryse \u201986<\/strong> is a firefighter and stress management\/grief counselor:\u00a0 \u201cCaptain\/EMT with the Chicago Fire Department with 24 years of service.\u00a0 He is the Coordinator of the Chicago Firefighters\u2019 Union Local 2\u2032s Employee Assistance Program and a standing member of the IAFF Labor\/EAP committee.\u00a0 Dan is a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP), a Certified Labor Assistance Professional (LAP\/C), a Certified Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor (CADC), and has advanced training in Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM).\u00a0 He has written articles, given speeches, and collaborated with others on the behavioral health of members in the Fire Service.\u00a0 Dan has a Bachelor of Science degree in Fire Science Management from Southern Illinois University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Wabash College\u201d (quoted from Dan\u2019s online bio).<\/p>\n<p>Dan was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/investigations\/Firefighters-Address-Alarming-Suicide-Rates-258225891.html\">recently interviewed<\/a> for a news story about the increase in firefighter suicides.\u00a0 Dan is passionate in his outreach to first responders, offering encouragement and support as they deal with the daily toll of their jobs in saving lives and property.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Dan and others will ride bicycles from Chicago\u2019s Wrigley Field to Boston\u2019s Fenway Park in 12 days.\u00a0 The goal is to raise money to assist Chicago Fire Department families in need and to support a fund to cure cancer research.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laborassistanceprofessionals.com\/index.cfm?zone=\/unionactive\/view_article.cfm&amp;HomeID=397605\">Click here<\/a> for the story about Dan and the ride to Fenway, which begins on May 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan DeGryse \u201986 is a firefighter and stress management\/grief counselor:\u00a0 \u201cCaptain\/EMT with the Chicago Fire Department with 24 years of service.\u00a0 He is the Coordinator of the Chicago Firefighters\u2019 Union Local 2\u2032s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}