Under MTDC's Tony Petrilli’s project leadership, the Forest
Service is actively collaborating with the world’s leading experts in textile
engineering including those at NASA, North Carolina State University,
University of Alberta and private industry. These collaborative
efforts insure that the most technically advanced solutions are being explored.
While the project is not complete, early indications are
that current fire shelter materials are performing very well compared to newer
competitors. These results are a real credit to the current shelter
(M2002 Fire Shelter) design team’s efforts. Tony’s team and project
collaborators will perform another round or prototype testing early this fall.
The video in the article has over 325,000 (and rapidly
climbing) views less that one day from it’s release. It was was
released on NASA’s Facebook page which has over 16 Million followers! It
has spread rapidly throughout numerous social media channels.
Article: NASA
engineers say they're making progress in their efforts to help the U.S. Forest
Service design a better emergency fire shelter for wildland firefighters.
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