daugen
Super Star Member
RS, you are guarding that Rose of Sharon like a 14 year old daughter...will the deer wreck them?
I don't know what 3M is selling for now but I found some Texas made N95 masks on Amazon for what seemed
a reasonable price. If it actually costs ten cents a piece to make them, I think I'd be annoyed...
KN95 masks, which I buy a fair amount of in different colors for my church and the nursery school there, generally cost
under a dollar a piece. So while I'm paying perhaps 3 times more for the US made NIOSH certified mask, it still only costs a couple
bucks a piece and is reusable. Just wish the better ones were easier to breathe through.
We worry a lot about viruses. Firemen used to worry about breathing stuff that would kill or cripple them.
SCBA aka Scott Pacs really helped rural fire companies operate more safely; wasn't just the big cities with the
good safety equipment. I wore one for about six years, not fond memories of sweating in them and big dents on your head
for a while where the straps and edges bit into you. "Old Leather Lungs" were of a generation that has now almost totally
died off from COPD. I usually went through two air bottles and by then the fire was out or someone else took over.
Once went through three.
So many of my personal pictures didn't make this last move, but my fireman stuff did.
This is me after a third Scott bottle sitting down simply exhausted looking up at an enormous
blaze when the Union Camp paper mill warehouse went up in flames just South of New Hope.
Big oil soaked timber warehouse building sitting right next to the Delaware River and River Road, and big steep hill on other side of road.
So all the fire apparatus were staged way too close to the fire.
Plastic light covers melted on several pumpers until they backed them up.
I got burns on my chest from the metal buttons on my turnout gear getting so hot
they reddened my skin. I was pulling off that coat like I had cinders down my back.
Mill was abandoned, allegedly set on fire by vagrants, so they finally just let it burn. We had pretty much exhausted all the local water and
mutual aid companies from I think five other volunteer fire companies and once they were sure it wasn't going to burn all the way up to Odette's restaurant,
everyone went home but us. I think we had trucks there for three days.
And I was thinking how to explain that feeling to that 8th grade boy who was so excited about being a fireman.
I don't know what 3M is selling for now but I found some Texas made N95 masks on Amazon for what seemed
a reasonable price. If it actually costs ten cents a piece to make them, I think I'd be annoyed...
AccuMed BNX N95 Mask NIOSH Certified MADE IN USA Particulate Respirator Protective Face Mask (10-Pack, Approval Number TC-84A-9315 / Model H95W) White: Amazon.com: Tools & Home Improvement
AccuMed BNX N95 Mask NIOSH Certified MADE IN USA Particulate Respirator Protective Face Mask (10-Pack, Approval Number TC-84A-9315 / Model H95W) White: Amazon.com: Tools & Home Improvement
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under a dollar a piece. So while I'm paying perhaps 3 times more for the US made NIOSH certified mask, it still only costs a couple
bucks a piece and is reusable. Just wish the better ones were easier to breathe through.
We worry a lot about viruses. Firemen used to worry about breathing stuff that would kill or cripple them.
SCBA aka Scott Pacs really helped rural fire companies operate more safely; wasn't just the big cities with the
good safety equipment. I wore one for about six years, not fond memories of sweating in them and big dents on your head
for a while where the straps and edges bit into you. "Old Leather Lungs" were of a generation that has now almost totally
died off from COPD. I usually went through two air bottles and by then the fire was out or someone else took over.
Once went through three.
So many of my personal pictures didn't make this last move, but my fireman stuff did.
This is me after a third Scott bottle sitting down simply exhausted looking up at an enormous
blaze when the Union Camp paper mill warehouse went up in flames just South of New Hope.
Big oil soaked timber warehouse building sitting right next to the Delaware River and River Road, and big steep hill on other side of road.
So all the fire apparatus were staged way too close to the fire.
Plastic light covers melted on several pumpers until they backed them up.
I got burns on my chest from the metal buttons on my turnout gear getting so hot
they reddened my skin. I was pulling off that coat like I had cinders down my back.
Mill was abandoned, allegedly set on fire by vagrants, so they finally just let it burn. We had pretty much exhausted all the local water and
mutual aid companies from I think five other volunteer fire companies and once they were sure it wasn't going to burn all the way up to Odette's restaurant,
everyone went home but us. I think we had trucks there for three days.
And I was thinking how to explain that feeling to that 8th grade boy who was so excited about being a fireman.
