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before respirators were invented, firefighters were required to grow a full beard. Before a fire, firefighters would soak their beards in water and clamped it in their teeth to act as filters, which w... View More
Pre-World War I Firefighter Respirators and the U.S. Bureau of Mines Involvement in WWI
The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) was established on July 1, 1910 with a mission to address the previous decade’s coal mine fatality incidence rate of greater than 2,000 annually. The need for federal g...