Not at all! You may find it hard to believe, but homemade gas masks made from on-hand or even scavenged materials can offer significant protection against airborne particles, and even certain proper gases.Īt any rate, so long as they are made with a little bit of care and attention to detail they are significantly better than just clamping an old bandana or a wet t-shirt over your mouth and nose.Īside from their increased effectiveness at filtering contaminants out of the air you’re about to breathe, gas masks keep your hands-free, allowing you to use tools, carry things, help someone else or even use a weapon. In today’s article, we have rounded up a selection of four different designs we found on the web and brought them to you so you can add them to your survival tool box! A DIY Gas Mask? Are You Crazy?! While these improvised respirators do not compare to the efficiency and certainty of military and police grade models, they are significantly better than just holding a cloth over your mouth. I guess you can clamp a bandana or a t-shirt over your mouth and nose and hope for the best, but this won’t do a single thing to protect your eyes and the rest of your face.Ī better solution, if you have time, materials and opportunity is to construct a homemade gas mask. Many peppers choose to stock a gas mask along with filter canisters as part of their survival accoutrement, but what if you should get caught out somewhere without your gas mask and need to defend yourself against less-lethal chemical agents or airborne particulates? Tear gas, pepper spray and other agents are commonly deployed by police and are increasingly available to civilians.
Superintendent Tammy Wolicki sent a letter to parents later in the morning advising them of the temporary lockdown and school officials were cooperating with troopers investigating both incidents.With rioting, civil unrest and subsequent government crackdowns becoming more and more frequent all around the country we are naturally seeing the deployment of more chemical agents designed to bust up rioting and hopefully get people to go home and stay there. It may look unassuming, but he was carrying a bag in his hand, walking toward school property,” Limani said. “I also would like to say that the school police did a great job with the 14-year-old teenager (wearing the hot dog costume) not knowing what was going on there. Sharing things like that on social media alarms people today and if you’re breaking a law doing it, you’re going to be arrested,” Limani said. “Due to recent events, people are very sensitive to these type of things and they are taken very seriously. Limani said the teenager obtained the gas mask from his grandfather. The message on Snapchat stated: “(Expletive) shooting up the school. He also will face discipline by school officials, authorities said. Limani said that student will face charges in county juvenile court including terroristic threats. The 16-year-old issued a threatening message on Snapchat, Limani said, along with a photograph of himself wearing the gas mask on the school bus that was circulated among students. “He claimed he was walking to Walmart to buy something, but we do not believe that,” Limani said. Troopers said he was already on juvenile probation for an unrelated incident and is expected to be placed on home confinement as a result of Thursday’s incident. He was taken into custody by school police, who turned him over to state troopers for questioning. The 14-year-old lives in the area and is a former Hempfield student, according to school officials. That was before 8 a.m., and then the teenager, with the hot dog costume, occurred just seven minutes later,” state police spokesman Steve Limani said. “We were already at the high school investigating another incident with a 16-year-old, wearing a gas mask on the school bus and as he entered the school, who made a threat on social media. The high school, Harrold Middle and Fort Allen Elementary schools returned to normal operations by mid-morning after troopers and school officials determined there were no legitimate risks to students or staff. Police said a 14-year-old wearing a hot dog costume with his face painted as the Joker, a DC Comics character, alarmed students and staff as he walked toward the high school. State police suspect the last day of school in Hempfield Area School District may have been the impetus for two bizarre, unrelated incidents that prompted a lockdown of three schools Thursday.
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