Fire Departments
We protect the fire service’s most valuable asset—the men and women who serve—by setting the standard for reducing cancer risk in training and extending the functional life of frontline PPE.
Fire Departments, academies & schools, call or E-mail for bulk pricing. Contact information located below.
"Chief, you’re putting guys through drills in $4,000 sets of bunker gear that are designed for IDLH environments—not repetitive training exposure."
Carna is built specifically to take that wear off of your front line gear and provide the FF with realistic heat retention, and reduced exposure to contaminated frontline PPE—so you extend lifespan and reduce carcinogen load without sacrificing realism.
This lets your department separate:
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Training gear
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Operational PPE
Instead of blending both into the same exposure cycle.
Price Savings
If you extend one set of structural gear by even 1 year, that’s $3,000–$5,000 saved per firefighter.
Outfitting your crew with Carna costs less than replacing one or two sets of damaged PPE.
Cancer
We’re not replacing certified gear—we’re reducing unnecessary exposure when it’s not needed.
During:
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Non IDLH drill yard training
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In gear PT
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Pub Eds
Chiefs Objection: “We can just use old bunker gear”
Response: Old gear is the most contaminated gear (by far), and it breaks down unpredictably. Carna gives you consistency and a controlled training environment + affordable repairs.
Contact Carna for department bulk discount pricing
Most departments don’t buy this as gear—they adopt it as a training standard
Across fire departments and academies nationwide, thousands of men and women train daily—either preparing to become firefighters or continuing to develop their skills.
Much of this training is done in frontline PPE or older, heavily used gear, which is the most contaminated. This compounds the already elevated cancer risk in the fire service, even though most training does not require full IDLH protection.
This creates a gap: firefighters are repeatedly training in contaminated gear when it isn’t necessary, leading to avoidable exposure over time.
The fire service should aim to provide the highest level of safety during both operations and training.
Carna Bunker Gear offers a purpose-built solution—training gear designed to limit unnecessary contaminant exposure while still delivering the realism, durability, and performance firefighters need.
Don’t force a tradeoff between safety and training.
Don’t rely on contaminated gear—or eliminate training in gear altogether.
Set a better standard. Reduce exposure. Protect your people.
Fire departments, academies, and training programs:
Call or email for bulk pricing. Contact information is provided below.