Officials with Midwest Mission says that firefighters in third-world countries often fight fire in just t-shirts and jeans.

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Firefighters risk their lives to keep people and the planet safe, putting themselves in the path of obvious hazards to help others. A new study has shown that the gear they wear to keep themselves ...

In December, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a federal agency tasked by Congress to evaluate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in firefighting gear, released the results of its ...

“The cleaning of the gear would take approximately an hour ... system to test younger members for cancer. “A 30-year-old firefighter does have the risk factor of a 55-year-old smoker with ...

Knowing there was no time to wait for backup to arrive, two firefighters rushed into a burning home to save a young woman ...

As part of the 2025 State of the State, Hochul announced new legislation to ban the sale of firefighter gear containing emerging contaminant per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in New York State.

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In 2023, the World Health Organization classified the act of firefighting as a Group 1 carcinogen, just like asbestos and tobacco. Both the fires themselves and the very gear firefighters wear on the ...

One of the two pilots aboard the private jet owned by Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil died when the aircraft veered off a ...