A rescue worker trained to use specialized equipment to enter dangerous environments like mines or tunnels to help people in distress.
From German 'Drägermann,' combining 'Träger' (carrier/wearer) and 'Mann' (man). The term specifically refers to workers wearing breathing apparatus in rescue operations.
These heroes wear early oxygen masks or breathing apparatus to enter deadly mine collapses where regular humans would suffocate—a profession that emerged from the industrial revolution's dangerous working conditions.
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