I have been in the the glove business for 6 years and I have seen first hand EMS and Fire Departments switch from regular Latex to the New synthetic gloves, mainly Nitrile. When I started selling gloves in 1998 I started out calling allot of Fire Departments which later lead me to EMS stations as well. During my first year of glove sales I noticed that the trend had been set by a company called Microflex.