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This paper gives an account of the dangers and impairments in face of fire-fighters, which are caused by flame, high-temperature, harmful gases; dust, oxygen-deficiency, as well as the bad environment. It focus on the techniques of the protection equipments for forest fire-fighters, such as helmets, suits, gloves, boots, rescue wraps, tents and sleeping bags etc, which are used in our country nowadays. Finally, it puts forward ideas concerning the developing tendency of the protection equipment used in forest fire-fighting in China, that is, flame-retarding, multiple functions, seriation and standardization and the making up of the regulations and laws.