Abstract
One of the most important factors affecting the safety of firefighters is protection against heatwhile fighting a fire. Flame is considered the most dangerous phenomenon that can quickly causedamage to fire-resistant clothing and injury to a firefighter. The article presents testing methodsfor protective clothing. An innovative method of testing the impact of flame on protective clothingfabrics, developed at the State Fire Service Aspirants’ School in Krakow, was presented. The samplewas exposed to a flame from a burner powered by propane-butane gas. Temperature measurementswere executed with a thermal imaging camera Flir T430sc and K-type thermocouples, and thetime to reach the so-called pain threshold (temperature 60C) by a person wearing protectiveclothing. The tests were carried out on material samples of fabrics produced by ANDROPOL withreflective layers of nanocomposites applied and subjected to impregnation.
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