"Our goal is to make dressing for the job easier for firefighters."
When he was in college, Sean Conant had no particular career goal in mind. Then his father had a massive heart attack and he watched firefighters and paramedics save his life.
"A light bulb went off," he said. "I wanted to be that person."
He wanted to be one of those "ordinary guys thrown into emergency situations," he said, one of those people who perform heroic acts on a daily basis.
Now 41, Conant has been a firefighter about 18 years, currently at Naval Air Station Jacksonville. And last year he launched a new line of comfortable, affordable and fire-resistant uniforms for firefighters to wear at their stations and under their heavy fire-scene gear.
Read more at the Florida Times-Union