Gas Mask Failure Stuns Firefighters. By Jaime Holguin. February 13, 2003 / 3:18 PM EST / CBS ... It could be years before masks that can handle poison gas reach the teams that need them.

FIREFIGHTERS' MASKS CAN'T STOP GASThe gas masks used by almost every fire department in the country can't keep chemical agents like sarin and mustard gas from getting in. Many firefighters have no ...

Cleveland inventor Garrett A. Morgan, a son of former slaves, had a gift for inventing life-saving devices, including firefighter gas masks and the precursors of modern traffic lights.

DUNKERTON -- A new self-contained breathing apparatus was purchased recently by the Dunkerton Fire Association for Dunkerton Fire and Rescue. The volunteers were able to get 14 sets due in large ...

Myrtle Beach firefighters could be ... City Council approved a motion Tuesday to authorize the city manager to apply for a $33,294 grant to buy 50 sets of gas masks for the city’s firefighters.

The Portland Fire & Rescue Bureau this past week moved from using disposable masks to full gas-type masks for all medical calls when firefighters are in close proximity to a patient where there ...

German firefighters had to wear gas masks to save a 350-pound man who had not washed in five years. Firefighters also were forced to wear biohazard suits, pictures from 7aktuell.de show. Neighbors … ...

A decade earlier, he patented the first gas mask in response to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 garment workers, mostly young women, in New York City in 1911.

Gas masks have apparently become a hot commodity near Ferguson, Mo., after more than a week of clashes between police and protesters since an officer's fatal shooting of an unarmed black man.