#firesuit

Firesuit 

Lines of Salt

Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah

Hasselblad 500c/m

“Ex-Wrestling Champ Dons His Firefighting Suit, Douses Raging Blaze in Minutes Flat,” Toronto Star. March 24, 1942. Page 3. ---- GOLLY, WHAT’S THIS? It’s a one-man fire brigade. Eugene Hurtubise of Peterboro is the man, the contraption he invented is the brigade. At the turn of a tap, water gushed from five fog nozzles and a hand hose in the suit. A hose to a water-main supplies the water, another to a machine brings in air. He spent two years making the firesuit.

SO HEAVY is the fire and waterproof suit it’s slipped over the head from a cord on an overhead pulley. Demonstrating it, the inventor walked into a raging inferno, had the flames out in a minute and a half. He swore he felt cold while standing in the midst of the fire.

RESCUING PEOPLE is the main idea, says Hurbubise, former Canadian heavy-weight wrestling champion. He he lifts Emmett Kylie up to his own height - six foot, three.