BC-Wildfire-Kämpfer entwickelt hoffnungsvolle Lösung, um das Einatmen von Rauch zu verhindern

>“We see a fair bit of toxic debris and combustibles when we’re on the fire line as wildland firefighters and I was thinking about why we don’t have sort of designated masks,” said Duguid.
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>The result is Respire, a sleek-looking respirator that looks something like a scuba-diving mouthpiece and is much smaller than current commercially available respirators.
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>The device produced by Duguid as his final-year project at Emily Carr is functional and the firefighter of five years hopes to eventually get it on the market, filling what he says is a gap.
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>Unlike structural and urban firefighters who are all equipped with self-contained breathing apparatuses, Duguid said wildland firefighters have traditionally lacked suitable respirators.
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>The BC Wildfire Service said online last month that respiratory protection certified by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health was made available to all operational staff this wildfire season, on a “non-mandatory, opt-in” basis.
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>But it said wildland firefighters have historically used bandanas or cloth masks as respiratory protection on the fire line, with these offering “little to no protection” against small particulates in wildfire smoke.
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>For example, he said some working days last 16 hours, with firefighters hiking up hills and carrying 100 pounds of gear and breathing hard, and other times breathing much easier. The key was to come up with a respirator that could be easily deployed for short periods and then quickly removed many times a day.
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>He said he was helped with the design for Respire by his firefighter colleagues, joking that “they are smarter than I thought.”
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>The device is only worn in the mouth and does not cover the nose, making it small enough to clip on a shirt pocket for easy access.
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>Duguid, who graduated from university in April, said he is still fine-tuning the idea.

Love to see this kind of innovation from the front lines, and hopefully he’s able to refine the device enough over the coming months to make this a viable product.

I swear I’ve seen these before… https://www.safetysolutionsandsupply.com/7902-escape-mouth-piece-respirator-ag-hs-clo2.html

Buncha commenters in here haven’t deployed and it shows. The mask is for when I’m up close and personal with a big, nasty smoke thrower. I want it for a few minutes and then I want to stash it when I’m not using it.

Yea, I’m sure a big full face fuck off 3m unit is cool. Too bad I’m not interested in strapping a 6”x3”x3” Mask case to myself.