A REVIEW OF THE FIREFIGHTING FABRICS FOR FLASHOVER TEMPERATURE

In relatively recent year, concern for individual working in high risk environments, especially those with the potential of being exposed to thermal source, Fire fighters' protective clothing provides a limited amount of thermal protection from environmental exposures produced by fires. This amount of thermal protection depends on various parameters which are design, materials, construction, and fitting of the protective garments. These thermal protective clothing has specific unique structure as compared to normal clothing. The present review is an attempt to sum up the recent developments taking place in the modification of high performance fabric used against thermal hazards and the performance of these thermal protective clothing under flash over temperature.