Vanguard Safety Wear Firefighting Gloves
Vanguard Safety Wear makes firefighting gloves and is based in Amboy, Illinois. The company opened in 2017, started by a longtime glove designer and a career firefighter, and it builds its gloves for the fire service. Its best-known gloves are the MK structural gloves: the MK-2 and the kangaroo-palm MK-2 Ultra are certified to NFPA 1970-2025.
Vanguard also makes the Squad-1 extrication glove for rescue work and the WILD-1 wildland glove, certified to NFPA 1977-2022. Compare every glove and check sizing on the Vanguard Safety Wear brand page.
