@article{ref1,
title="Fire fighting and its influence on the body",
journal="Ergonomics",
year="2003",
author="Rossi, Riccardo",
volume="46",
number="10",
pages="1017-1033",
abstract="Working conditions for fire fighters can bedescribed according to the environment temperature and the incident radiant heatflux. Measurements for this study in buildings for fire fighting training haveshown that fire fighters are typically exposed to radiant heat fluxes of between5 and 10 kWm(-2) during this kind of exercise. The heat load can nevertheless bemuch higher. In one case, 42 kWm(-2) was measured. The temperatures reachedbetween 100 and 190 degrees C at 1 m above ground, going up to 278 degrees C inone case. Human trials have been performed with 17 fire fighters. Afterexercises (about 15 min) in a heated room, the mean core temperature of the firefighters rose by 0.6 degrees C with a surrounding temperature of 31 degrees Cand 1.0 degrees C with 38 degrees C. The sweat production varied from 0.7 to 2.1lh(-1); 16% to 45% of sweat remained in the clothing layers. During theexercises in the training buildings, a mean of 48 degrees C has been measuredbetween fire fighters' clothing and workwear. These conditions lead to anincrease of the relative humidity in all the jackets up to 100%. When the firefighters came out of the fire, the humidity remained at this level in the PVCcoated jackets while it was in some cases strongly reduced in breathablejackets.",
language="",
issn="0014-0139",
doi="10.1080/0014013031000121968",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0014013031000121968"
}