By following the link, you will be able to learn insights into why you should choose to wear a radio strap instead of keeping it in your radio pocket on the front of your bunker gear.
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- Wearing the portable radio on a leather strap, under the coat, but with the radio extended below the bottom of the coat with the antenna canted away from the body protects the RSM from thermal insult and subsequent melting
- Eliminates 50% of radio signal loss over the radio pocket, and prevents the radio from ejecting of the person.
- Fairfax County Fire & Rescue Department conducted a Firefighter Survival program, which included a Floor Collapse Simulator that over 700-firefighters participated in over a year and a half. In a rare opportunity to trend issues that firefighters encounter while conducting complex tasks or operating in physically challenging environments, facilitators for that program documented a 40% radio ejection rate for firefighters wearing their radio in the radio pocket.
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