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Closed or Open Circuit Breathing Apparatus(CCBA/SCBA)

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JC:
Being in a position to be able to use both CCBA & SCBA regularly, a CCBA will never be suitable for your standard fire service. Reasons - cost of individual units, unit testing time's, replacement component price and practicality of storage. Also after 2 hours in a CCBA the o2 you are breathing becomes that hot it becomes very unpleasant.

ps BG4 all the way :wink:

BundyBear:
BG4 nice for underground work

PSS 7000's and carbon fibre cylinders for CFS please!

mike3715:
I would like to respond to this topic - whether a fire service should or should not use CCBA should be considered on certain criteria
1/. Infrastructure based risk - ( large industrial complexes, shopping centres etc )

2/. Finacial position of the fire service to purchase , maintain and train

Most fire services are not in the postion to fund ,train and maintain CCBA as they are expensive and based on the above issues hard to justify.

The one issue that  been little discussed is usage time

CCBA will provide up to 4 hours use as opposed to SCBA realistically -  17 minutes
( at 65 l/m using 200 bar x 9 litre cylinder )- less 10 min warning whistle time
even twin cylinders only provide optimally 35 mins

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