Fighter jets are pressurized dynamically, so pilots must wear oxygen masks to ensure proper breathing and prevent hypoxia.

Known as “rapid intervention team” or RIT packs, the equipment contains an air cylinder with connections to get a downed firefighter oxygen in situations where they might be trapped or isolated.

A Texas firefighter pulled a trapped toddler from the window of a burning apartment building in a daring early morning rescue Sunday, and it was all caught on video. A firefighter, identified in a ...

Several puppies have been rescued and given oxygen masks by firefighters tackling a large blaze at a shop and flats. It broke out at about 05:20 BST in Northgate Street in Great Yarmouth and ...

The West Union Fire Department (WUFD) was awarded $226,170 earlier this year through the Federal Emergency Management ...

TIVERTON, R.I. (WLNE) — The Tiverton Fire Department said a mobile home on Fairfield Avenue caught fire on Friday. The ...

he death of a firefighter ... mask, which would provide clean air amid the toxic smoke. However, that night, no one had air respirators, and the volunteer ambulance also lacked an oxygen tank.

Firefighter Lt. William Walker was a hero to many ... Watch A Plan to Kill on Sundays at 7/6c on Oxygen and Peacock. His wife of just a few months, Uloma Curry-Walker, called 911 to report the ...

“We can forecast when a firefighter is about to exit to renew his air supply, and we can see which teams have full tanks when we need to assign them tasks.” In addition to oxygen ...

Ravena Rescue Squad EMT Emma Freihofer treats a cat using a pet-sized oxygen mask following a house fire Tuesday, Oct.15, 2024, on Starr Road in Ravena. Medical equipment sits from the Ravena ...

Oct. 11—The Neoga Fire Protection District is calling its Lieutenant Cameron Finney a hero after he assisted an older man on oxygen from a burning mobile home early Thursday morning.