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In general, fire fighters use a body harness for the same reason others who wear them do -- protection. Sometimes firemen work in shafts or on exposed areas high in the air. Under many of these circumstances, we'll see a firefighter put on a safety harness (and there are several different kinds). He'll be strapped into (wearing) the harness and will be hooked up to safety lines, or he might be tethered to a line that actually supports his weight so he can be, say, lowered into a hole in the ground to effect a rescue.

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