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Black Helmet Apparel was founded by a fireman for firefighters. All the designs are hand drawn, and unique. You'll find no clip art here. You'll only find the images that relay the fearless, but frightening side of our job. No cheesy sayings. This is how we live. It's what we love.

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Black Helmet Firefighter Apparel

In 1836 the American leather fire helmet was born..... It was called the New Yorker....It was black. Called the New Yorker for the New York fireman who first constructed a leather fire helmet in 1740...

Throughout the years the helmet has changed, at one point aluminum, and now usually plastic and Kevlar. But no piece of fire equipment is more recognizable to the public, or more beloved by firefighters than the fire helmet.

It has become a symbol of courage, dedication, sacrifice, and tradition. And firefighters with a sense of tradition, who wish to honor those who first rushed into burning buildings everyone else ran out of, own a leather helmet. And no matter what color your helmet is, if you've been in a good fire, by the time you come out your helmet is black.

That is why black is traditionally the firefighters helmet color. The Lieutenant, red. The Chief, white. Some helmet manufacturers continue to make the underside of the brim of their red and white helmets black. This is so the chain-of-command can remember where they started.


In the smoke..... In the flame....... In the Black Helmet.

 

 

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