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it's recognized as the most hazardous

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professional the country the National

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injury rate among firefighters is

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fourteen percent and in Boston the rate

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is often double that average what gives

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the city it's john is a firefighters

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concealed spaces spraying least archers

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from the outside surround and approaches

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as the Commissioner of the old Stapleton

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it's inside

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that number has been reduced to about 50

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thanks in large part to staples in his

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determination he'd been a Boston

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firefighters since nineteen fifty-one

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and worked his way up to deputy chief

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when he wrote a letter about the smoke

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inhalation problem and distributed it

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around the country it was a call for

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help in Boston over period of a couple

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of decades we had ten members killed

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while utilizing the type of equipment

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that they had then so it's very clear to

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us as well as too many other fire

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departments that we had to have

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something better but they really didn't

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seem anyone who was gonna try to develop

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it NASA risk on the rock an engineer is

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at the Johnson Space Center began

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adapting life-support system technology

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used by Apollo astronauts on the moon

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the result an improved breathing

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apparatus now being used by firefighters

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around the world manufactured by Scott

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aviation the system consists of a face

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mask harness frame and air tank it's

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much lighter and more reliable than its

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predecessor but the most important

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factor is that firefighters like can use

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the system the first year that we

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utilize the NASA system we reduce smoke

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inhalation injuries from 500 down to 50

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and there was a tremendous improvement

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but also our effect and controlling

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fires we were able to penetrate the

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building deeper and do our job better

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and firefighters will the first one to