Redesigned fire gear offers potentially more cooling, less toxicity

A Cornell researcher’s bold redesign of firefighter gear, which hasn’t significantly changed in decades, is more versatile and better adapted to their actual work, only a small fraction of which involves fighting structure fires.

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