CS gas and gear

my station recently had a stand off in our town with state police and atf and we assisted in ventaltion and some searching sprayed everything off went home came back a couple days later looked at are gear and was now covered in white mold. Hopeing the ATF will be nice enough to replace it becasue it is from the cs gas. CS gas likes to reactivate itself once it gets wet i've learned. anyone else ever come in contact with it i nthe fire service. In the military i went through it once a year and it never did this to my BDU's but i know this is a whole diffrent a story

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Permalink Reply by Michael C. Harrison on June 7, 2009 at 11:26am

We walked into a house years ago and it was later realized that it wasn't on fire....a CS gas can had been activated.

We washed and dried out gear in a washing machine (this was before extractors were readily available) and a clothes dryer and had no problems.

Just spraying the gear off wont get rid of it, and anytime you sweat in the gear it will re-activate if it's still there. And I have no idea where the mold came from.

And either the State or the Fed's should replace the gear....depending on if it was a State Police incident, or an ATF incident.