Self-contained breathing apparatus
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Nov 2, 2026
Ryan AndersonHOST
We also breathe selfishly, I'm gonna ask you this, I've been wanting to talk to you about it.
Ryan AndersonHOST
We breathe through this little SCBA, this regulatory thing with a mask on.
Ryan AndersonHOST
And so, yeah, maybe on a fire ground, you're doing all this high intensity stuff and you can nasal breathe until you get to the point where you throw your mask on and now you have to really work at a high, high level with stress, with adrenaline.
Ryan AndersonHOST
So
Clint GreenwoodGUEST
But when it came down to respiratory protection, we had to start looking at what else could we do.
Clint GreenwoodGUEST
I mean, we got down to a lot of situations where emergency responders went in on an EMS call wearing an SCBA.
Clint GreenwoodGUEST
Because we had to have something.
Clint GreenwoodGUEST
We were, you know, I don't like to use the word desperate, but if you think about it, you get to that point.
Mike ThoemHOST
Anytime we would have to wear a respirator or anything, I have to take this off.
Mike ThoemHOST
And when I do my annual, like, my fit testing for my, like, SCBA, I have to take it all off, obviously.
Mike ThoemHOST
My kids tell me I look like a thumb when I have no patient whatsoever, which is, like, super flattering, right? That's exactly what you want to hear.
Mike ThoemHOST
You look like a thumb.
MattHOST
Cause like you're going to, there's so much stuff that you got to learn from throwing ladders to throwing, uh, you know, pulling hose to doing ropes and knots and specialized stuff.
MattHOST
SCBAs.
MattHOST
I mean, medical stuff.
MattHOST
It's like crazy.
PeteHOST
Like, I'm looking up different career fields, like firefighters and police officers, and both of them says that you must shave.
PeteHOST
Firefighter wears a self-containing breathing apparatus, SCBA mask, when going to smoky areas.
PeteHOST
Having a beard might prevent them from having a good seal.
PeteHOST
Time does not pursue them to have that bad seal and try to save lives.
BrandonHOST
Right.
BrandonHOST
And they'll say, okay, at this time, we're going to get you to, you know, tell us everything you learned about, let's say, uh, SCBA pack.
BrandonHOST
right or radio or this piece of equipment so you know they're going to give you all the tools like here's a laptop or the computer you know here's the manuals here's everything you need and like for an hour hour and a half you can come up with some pretty good points
AdamoHOST
yeah for sure
CarrollGUEST
I do the box – what do we call it, box breathing? I don't know.
CarrollGUEST
So we learned that it's the easy one for the people in the fire service because we learned it wearing our self-SCBA
Carrie Mae BlaserHOST
masks.
CarrollGUEST
When you run out of air, you learn how to skip breathing, different breathing techniques.
Charles FaderHOST
It could require that we have to have air purifying respirators.
Charles FaderHOST
It could require that we need some kind of oxygen tank, which is referred to as SCBA, which is a self-contained breathing apparatus which provides us let's say that we are in a a body suit with a face shield and it's enclosed so we need to have oxygen being given to us within that suit to uh keep us from breathing in dangers um outside of our suit so um Then we have the full body protection, right? This is like the suits that we wear, which could have the face shield and the breathing apparatuses used with them.
Charles FaderHOST
These are protective clothings to protect our skin from, you know, full body suits, right? So, and at different levels of thicknesses and stuff like that, but it's to protect the...
Charles FaderHOST
like the the particles the dry particles from different types of hazardous material or liquid chemical splashes or like mold spores or hazardous dust in general it is to protect our skin uh that's what the the full body you know uh suits are for to protect our skin And in that full body suit, typically it would have a face mask and a shield.
Charles FaderHOST
So those are the different types of categories for PPE.
Charles FaderHOST
And in that category I talked about where I talked about full body protection, meaning the suits, right? There's different levels of suits or protective wear for the bulk of our skin, right? So there's a level A suit, right? Level A has maximum skin and respiratory and eye protection.
Charles FaderHOST
This includes a positive pressure SCBA.
Charles FaderHOST
I mentioned SCBA up under the respirators section.
PaulHOST
centers on self-contained breathing apparatus the air tanks firefighters wear on their backs in hazardous environments.
PaulHOST
Most of our listeners know this.
PaulHOST
Anyway, the union president more than alleges 50 Huntsville firefighters develop coughing, throat irritation, chest discomfort after breathing SCBA air during physical training incentive in August.
PaulHOST
It says more than 60 grievances have since been filed and firefighters continue to report breathing problems.
PaulHOST
According to the lawsuit, a June 15th air quality test on a Cascade trailer, so it's a mobile air supply trailer that can be used on scenes to refill the SCBAs, failed due to high levels of oil and particulate as per third-party testers.
PaulHOST
So there's a compressor that compresses the air to store it in these cylinders, and if the compressor isn't in good repair, it can put oil and other contaminants into the breathing air, which of course is bad for the people breathing it.
DenisHOST
Which is why there's complete filtration systems, should be complex filtration systems.
PaulHOST
So the trailer was removed from service June 24th after the, for a ruptured airline and then returned to service July 2nd.
Jon LoewGUEST
So we designed the program so that the kids would learn basic skills like donning and doffing of gear.
Jon LoewGUEST
They learned how to don SCBA.
Jon LoewGUEST
They learned how to do search and rescue.
Jon LoewGUEST
And of course, they learned hose operation.
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