What Temperature Can Firefighter Turnout Gear Withstand?
What Temperature Can Firefighter Turnout Gear Withstand? The temperature inside the turnouts can be up to 160 degrees! What temperature does Firefighter PPE fail? Now we wear Nomex hoods, full PPE including turn out bunker pants, SCBA and gloves. If you wear Nomex, it fails at approximately 1200 degrees F and if you wear PBI