While they’ve been referred to as gas masks, they’re technically known as escape hoods. Sometimes also called escape respirators, these hoods serve a key purpose: to allow an untrained ...

FORT HOOD — Special agents from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command are investigating the disappearance of gas masks, ammunition and other items from a Fort Hood supply cage ...

which takes on the look of gas masks featuring black hardware, silver valves and red LED lights. "I'm safe," read Mooney's tweet. "We've been equipped with escape hoods and we're being moved ...

The Department of Corrections had required Hood to sign a waiver agreeing to stay 3 feet (0.9 meters) away from Smith’s gas mask in case the hose supplying the nitrogen came loose. Smith began ...