How to Clean Your Bunker Gear
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2017
- Cedar Hill Fire Department Training
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Detailed instructions on how to take apart, and wash our firefighting PPE properly.
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You forgot the DRD. Take a smell of one of those after a fire, they are heavily soiled.
Muchas gracias Cedar Hill Fire amigos, saludos desde Guadalajara - very useful video.
What extractor is that.? Brand, model please. Nice video, dirty gear is so often taken for granted
Dear MadCat. Machine is Unimac, model UW065 price is around $13,000 - it's been a year since you asked, did you buy another washer machine? Thanks
@@sigsourr the term he might be looking for is “overlooked”
I have a set of gear I bought in anticipation of going to fire school. 29 years ago. I used it instead of the hand-me-down gear that fire dept would give us, never had to make entry with it. I retired, then started working again. I kept it in a gear bag on top of a generator out in my man-cave. It has a strong gasoline smell. I thought it might be useful for extrications. I work for an ESD that only has volunteer firefighters. Sometimes we beat them by a longshot to scenes. Another supervisor made entry on a burning trailer to get a guy out, because fire wasn't there yet. If I ever need to do that, I want gear, even if its old. There's an extractor on the fire side where I work. Should I try to get that smell out before I wash it in their extractor?
Never should you ever use turnout gear that exceeds an age of 10 years. While you may believe that it has been preserved in the bag you kept it in, the materials that make the gear will naturally breakdown over time, thus rendering them inadequate for proper protection. The gasoline smell only adds to the concern.
I would recommend just trying to get new gear or see if the hand me downs are any good.
Easy to take out but is it easy to put back in
It’s not particularly hard if that’s what you’re asking.
What if there is a fire call while your gear is drying
Fireboy 676 they probably dry it at the end of their shift
The following shift does our wash and dry. If your gear gets REALLY contaminated early in the shift, we have back-up gear. I know a lot of depts can’t afford that luxury, so for those guys, it’s soap, water,a brush, a rinse, and then the joy of wet turnout gear the rest of your shift. Wet gear sucks, but cancer sucks WAY more.
Clean what you can without taking yourself out of service and do a complete job on your day off.
You guys seriously do not have more than a single bunker gear?
@@patriciadeboer most departments only issue 1 set to their firefighters. The sets run around $4000 per set so if you have 10 firefighters (thats a small dept too!) You are looking at approximately $40,000.
How do you clean the inside of the boots?
This isn't typically dirty as this is under both the outside and inside liners. However, we on occasion wash them out with soap and water and toss on a gear dryer. Not a bad thing to clean out once in a while.
Typically I'll wash my boots with a bottle brush and some dawn dish soap and water about once every 4-6 months (either 2 or 3 times a year). This is mostly to combat odors & bacteria, especially if the inside of my boot happens to get wet. The outside of my boots I'll clean whenever it gets visibly dirty, same thing just using Dawn dish soap and water, with a flat dish brush to agitate. This is also a great time to inspect your boots for any nails or screws, dry-rotting of the rubber, and verify that the boot is in good condition overall.
Thanks for the help guys, we get a lot of grass fires and the inside of my boots get filled with ash
@robs4834 not a problem! If you continue having this issue with wildland boots, it may be time to replace them, or at least reapply some leather conditioner. Also, ensuring they fit properly should reduce the amount of ash that goes into your boot
Can i use a regular washer if i dont have an extractor as long as water temp. does not exceed the 105 degrees?
n v yeah, waiting for institutional cleaning takes ages, and my gear stinks lol
It’s not advised to use a regular washer due to water temp, but also the agitation speed and other setting on an extractor are set specifically for turnout gear. Plus you would want to use your washer at home. You’d be getting trace amounts of carcinogens on your other clothes and your families clothes.
If it’s all your dept has, use a washer without the center agitator and wash on gentle warm, or wash by hand. There are cleaning/inspection companies that will do all this for you.
Don't its dangerous
this is torture, who does this cleaning? they should have one time use outfits , there aren't that many fires anymore and save on the environmental cost of cleaning all that soaked in soot especially if the cleaning in not maintained and logged like asbestos in buildings
speak for yourself... we had 683 fires last year
niqqa what
shut the fuck up about firefighting in general you obviously don't know enough to speak about the subject
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One time use? Do you have any idea how inefficient that would be? That would by no means cut costs whatsoever. PPE is so expensive because they need to match standards set by the NFPA to ensure FF safety. So by your logic, every set of gear would have to cost around the same as reusable gear for it to properly protect the FF.
As for the contaminants, that’s what the washers are for. To get rid of the asbestos and shit.
And no one time use gear would not help save the planet. If you don’t have any knowledge of a subject, like the fire service, please don’t try making comments on them.