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Anti-flash gear

fire-resistant personal protective equipment

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ4774356 ↗
Source-derived summary

Anti-flash gear, also known simply as flash gear, is basic personal protective equipment consisting of a fire-resistant hood and fire-resistant gloves, nowadays often made of Nomex.

Anti-flash gear protects the head, neck, face and hands from short-duration flame exposure and heat. This equipment is donned by shipboard navy personnel whenever a fire breaks out or during periods of heightened readiness.

History

Anti-flash gear was introduced in the Royal Navy following the Battle of Jutland during the First World War, when a number of British warships had been destroyed or damaged by flash from burning cordite propellant passing through the shell handling room into the magazine. It was found that the anti-flash hoods and gloves were more effective if flame-proofed with borax or boric acid.

See also

Anti-flash white

References

External links

"Anti-flash balaclava helmet in IWM Collection". iwm.org.uk. Retrieved 7 December 2017.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Anti-flash gear” is fire-resistant personal protective equipment. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Anti-flash, gear and fire-resistant, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Anti-flash, gear and fire-resistant is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Anti-flash gear” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.