Manhattan Gas Explosion 3/12/14

[recoveringspark]

I stand corrected and thank you for the clarification. Leather helmets have arguably been the most desirable helmets for decades. It's pretty bad that the very city that gave these helmets their name, and the department that brought them to the forefront of the fire service, no longer allows their members to wear them. My department didn't stop allowing us to wear them, but stopped buying them due to their cost. Members can still wear them but have to purchase them on their own.

So most guys in FDNY wear composite helmets and the fires still go out?  This is amazing.  In all seriousness peoples irrational obsession with leather helmets is ridiculous to me.  People in the fire service today seemed more concerned with looking cool than alot of other things that matter.