VIDEO: A Lubbock firefighter has helped create a global standard, when it comes to keeping first responders and roadside workers safe.
Lubbock Fire Rescue Lieutenant Brady Robinette wants to make wearing lifesaving helmets the new norm.
Before 2022, Lubbock firefighters wore their structural firefighting helmets on roadside calls. That’s what firefighters Eric Hill and Matt Dawson were wearing while responding to a crash on I-27 in January 2020.
Robinette remembers talking to Lieutenant Hill, just a day and a half before he was killed. Lubbock Police Officer Nicholas Reyna was also killed and Dawson suffered a traumatic brain injury, before dying last year. “That was a huge motivation for me to say, what can we do better to help prevent something like this in the future?” Robinette said.