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
‘”Strike” perpendicularly incase you miss, but try not to miss.’
— Paul Capo, When Things Go Bad, Inc. instructor
FORCIBLE ENTRY
“You get them out of that atmosphere as quick as possible and sometimes that is the window. You need to have that plan available from the very beginning.”
Search OR Rescue Awareness
Structure Fire
‘A quarter of the length of the ladder is where you want to be from the building for proper climbing angle.’
Ladder Throwing Tip
Structure Fire
“Don’t call for water until you have (the line) flaked out how you like it.”
Hose Management in 5-Story Stairwell
Hose Management
‘The weight of the coupling will suck this whole line down so we’ve got to tie this off. We’re always gonna tie it off below the coupling.’
Hose Management in 5-Story Stairwell
Hose Management
‘Take the nozzle. Advance and pin the hose to the ground so you don’t lose control of it. Then using your big muscles, pull it up the stairs.’
Two Person Hose Team Upstairs – ‘When Things Go Bad’
Hose Management
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