Study finds failure points in firefighter protective equipment

Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 11:30 in Health & Medicine

In fire experiments conducted in uniformly furnished, but vacant Chicago-area townhouses, researchers uncovered temperature and heat-flow conditions that can seriously damage facepiece lenses on standard firefighter breathing equipment, a potential contributing factor for first-responder fatalities and injuries.

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