Posted on May 14, 2023
The US is seeking a firefighter helmet that protects against flames and bullets
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Later this year, the Department of Homeland Security hopes to provide a new prototype helmet for firefighters, a piece of gear designed to meet modern challenges in one flexible, composite form. Firefighting is dangerous work, even when it’s narrowly focused on fires, but as first responders firefighters handle a range of crises, including ones where the immediate threat may be more from firearms than flame. To meet that need, the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology directorate is funding a new, all-purpose helmet for firefighters that will include both protection from bullets and fire.
Later this year, the Department of Homeland Security hopes to provide a new prototype helmet for firefighters, a piece of gear designed to meet modern challenges in one flexible, composite form. Firefighting is dangerous work, even when it’s narrowly focused on fires, but as first responders firefighters handle a range of crises, including ones where the immediate threat may be more from firearms than flame. To meet that need, the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology directorate is funding a new, all-purpose helmet for firefighters that will include both protection from bullets and fire.
Later this year, the Department of Homeland Security hopes to provide a new prototype helmet for firefighters, a piece of gear designed to meet modern challenges in one flexible, composite form. Firefighting is dangerous work, even when it’s narrowly focused on fires, but as first responders firefighters handle a range of crises, including ones where the immediate threat may be more from firearms than flame. To meet that need, the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology directorate is funding a new, all-purpose helmet for firefighters that will include both protection from bullets and fire.
The US is seeking a firefighter helmet that protects against flames and bullets
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The Firefighters job is dangerous enough saving property and lives and certainly all with a noble purpose and it's shameful anyone would even think of hurting these Men and women who are there to help others. It's good that equipment is being developed to better protect these hero's from those that would attempt to kill or harm them but so terrible it became a need in the first place. The criminals that commit these violent acts or murder and violence against Firefighters need to not only be prosecuted but sent to prison or if death of a Firefighter is involved executed !
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That's going to be one expensive helmet for fire departments to buy ma'am Lt Col Charlie Brown
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