Tuesday night was Drill Night and, with a week to go before our new helmets go 'on the run', we wore ours for the ERT training session.
It's fair to say that, at the moment, there aren't any fans of the new design.
After wearing them for a short period, muggy heads were the order of the day - possibly due to the extra weight of the helmet mounted torch on the righthand side!
And being used to adjusting our existing helmets in a flash, we're finding it all takes that much longer to locate the right 'bits' on the new coal scuttles...
Loosening the helmet to accommodate a BA mask and smokehood should be fun until we're more comfortable with the whole process.
Anyway, next Tuesday is H-Day - April 1st. Keep your eyes peeled for self-conscious firefighters fiddling with their helmets...
What was wrong with the previous ones. I saw a "how it's made" program on the firefighter helmets. It's pretty interesting. They are some pretty great hats.
Posted by: Ajlouny | Monday, 27 April 2009 at 01:32