APPRAISER: This leather fire helmet, I give it an auction estimate of $600 to $800. GUEST: Okay. APPRAISER: This Philadelphia-style parade hat is particularly rare, and they're fragile.

BOSTON (CBS) - Boston firefighter Brian Carey says a firefighter's helmet is a badge of honor. "It is literally part of you. It's gone where you've gone," Carey said.

Deputies say former Montverde Fire Chief Noel James Fetters, 33, paid $714.23 with a city credit card for a hand-stitched leather helmet he had shipped to his home last November.

The helmet stolen from Lawrence firefighter Patrick Sweeney wasn’t just any fire helmet. Inside was one of his grandfather’s military dog tags, which traveled with Sweeney to medical calls and ...

An image from the helmet-mounted video camera of a San Francisco fire battalion chief at the scene of the crash of Asiana Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport on July 6, 2013 in San ...

The battle-scarred helmet the Kings received from two Los Angeles firefighters has proven to be a major good-luck charm, and a reminder of life's true heroes.

The battle-scarred helmet the Kings received from two Los Angeles firefighters has proven to be a major good-luck charm, and a reminder of life's true heroes.

Retired FDNY firefighter Jerry Sanford with the helmet he says brought him back to New York City on Sept. 10, 2001 (Credit: CBS2) "There's the helmet, 1914. This is kind of amazing," he said.

Amid the solemn sound of a bagpipe, two firefighters perched in the fire truck’s bucket hung a gray helmet on a light pole above the intersection of 14th and H streets in Northwest D.C.