Fire and rescue

Fire and rescue — prescribed dress within emergency and rescue.

Collection: Emergency and Rescue

Every type of emergency and rescue in one place — 4 chapters, Fire and rescue, Ambulance and paramedic, Search and rescue and the rest, with the plates and an inventory to download.
Plates from the Nametape archive of emergency and rescue

Before Flame Resistance

Wool, leather and a brass helmet. Firefighting dress before flame-resistant fibre was a bet that wool chars rather than melts, and that the helmet would take the rest.
Three nineteenth-century American leather fire helmets from different companies