Todd Shepard | Forge Fire & Company
Forced Entry Tip
“The best tool you can have is a Home Depot paint stick. And we just wrap Velcro on the, on the handle of it.”
Brian Bird | Arvada Auto X Instructor
HEAVY LIFTING/Rescue Tool Tip
“What we don’t want to do is put the chain with the hook down because now you have to remember we’re pulling down on this car. Take the chain and bury the hook into the car.”
Paul Shoemaker | Next Level Extrication
Motor Vehicle/Rescue Tool Tip
If I keep the spreader tip flat down to start, I’m going to be able to go a lot higher with stability of this thing being on the ground and being flat.
Paul Shoemaker | Next Level Extrication
Motor Vehicle/Rescue Tool Tip
“We keep our cutters on our right side because we lay on our left. And then, we put ’em in the correct way, which is handles down and the heads up.”
Paul Capo | When Things Go Bad, Inc
Self Rescue
Forced Entry Through a Padlock Using the Two-Person Hook Method
Based on “IFSTA Essentials of Firefighting 7th Edition”
Forced Entry
Forced Entry Through a Padlock: One-person Twist Method
Based on “IFSTA Essentials of Firefighting 7th Edition”
Forced Entry
Don’t send your firefighter up with a bundle of line. He or she needs to go up and over handsfree. They can force entry, they can start figuring out the layout, as your officer comes and hands the bundle over.
Lead-Advance-Stretch Instructor, Instructor, Leo Mel
Structure Fire
“When you set up on a real building, don’t just set it up, pull it back down and leave. Set it up, climb up there and look at the actual transition”
Magic City Truck Academy, LLC Instructor, William Knight
Structure Fire
“Add a Halligan to the butt spur end so that it counterbalances the hooks”
Magic City Truck Academy Instructor, OJ Kolodziej
Structure Fire