Shepard v. Morning Pride Manufacturing, Inc.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Mercure, J.

On this appeal, we are confronted with the question of whether the "firefighter’s rule” may properly bar a volunteer firefighter’s action against a manufacturer of firefighter’s safety equipment that failed to provide adequate protection against hazards foreseeably encountered by firefighters during rescue activities. For the reasons that follow, we answer the question in the negative and reverse so much of the orders appealed from as dismissed plaintiffs’ causes of action against defendants Morning Pride Manufacturing, Inc., Mine Safety Appliances Company,…