The following is my opinion and what I heard my fellow firefighters say....
We were recently issued new firefighting gloves at work, they are the new Pro Tech 8 Gloves. When I first got them I was pretty sceptical of how they would be in fire situations. I refused to switch to them until someone from our dept used them and see how they would be. Well, yesterday we spent the afternoon in the burn tower doing some training. Our whole shift tried out these new gloves. Well we learned really fast that they do not keep your hands protected from the heat as well as our other gloves. We were feeling the heat way before we did through our hoods. When I grabbed a metal handle to open the window i had to quickly let go as the heat came right through the glove. The things we did to try these gloves out were the same things that we normally would do with our other gloves and not feel the heat.
Has anyone else tried these gloves? What do you think of them? Their dexerity is great, can't beat it but as far as wearing in fire conditions, I will not be wearing them. Please give me your input. Thanks
We were recently issued new firefighting gloves at work, they are the new Pro Tech 8 Gloves. When I first got them I was pretty sceptical of how they would be in fire situations. I refused to switch to them until someone from our dept used them and see how they would be. Well, yesterday we spent the afternoon in the burn tower doing some training. Our whole shift tried out these new gloves. Well we learned really fast that they do not keep your hands protected from the heat as well as our other gloves. We were feeling the heat way before we did through our hoods. When I grabbed a metal handle to open the window i had to quickly let go as the heat came right through the glove. The things we did to try these gloves out were the same things that we normally would do with our other gloves and not feel the heat.
Has anyone else tried these gloves? What do you think of them? Their dexerity is great, can't beat it but as far as wearing in fire conditions, I will not be wearing them. Please give me your input. Thanks
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