The Exposure Tracker Helps Prevent Chronic Firefighter Illnesses

摘要

Scenario: you pull up to the scene of a well-involved house, take a preconnected hoseline through the front door, and proceed to knock down the fire. You find the resident in a back bedroom closet, but she's suffered major burns, and is obviously deceased. You leave her in place for the investigators. Twenty minutes later, drenched in sweat and covered in ash, you exit the house to change your self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) bottle and head back in for overhaul. After that bottle finishes, you and your crew decide that the smoke is mostly dissipated, so you take off your SCBA and finish overhauling the structure. An hour later, you're back at the station. You and your crew are putting the rig back together, and then you sit down in the apparatus room for some coffee before getting off shift You head home from the shift with that sunburned, dried-out feeling on your face and some blisters on your ears, but otherwise you feel like all you need is a nap to fully recover.