In part 2 of 3 in this training series, Poudre Fire Lieutenant Dan Santillanes provides instruction for Fire Academy Recruits working through a low visibility environment on a primary search assignment.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

  What do you feel on your left side with your tool?

Cabinet?

Nope. So you had it like this right?

Okay. So what are you in right now? Why is your tool bent back?

You’re in a hallway. Okay, so what did you just come up against? Your tools bent and all of a sudden you were able to get it through. What did you probably go through?

Uh, a hallway or a door way.

You’ll recognize whether you want, it’s a bigger area. I want help get him into that room or have him room hold, just so that you can clear that whole area by yourself.

He yells. Room hold. I’m looking for that door.

Part of calling out directions is both for you, but it’s also for him.

My suggestion is call it out loud just so he can hear it, and that way he can have that door open too by the time he got back.

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