How you carry your water can can make all the difference on the fireground. Brian Bender breaks down the best single-point carry positions, explaining how each improves control, protects the nozzle, and helps you quickly transition from movement to deployment when it’s time to go to work.

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  I force the door and I go to drop down into the head up, foot out position, I got two options. If this foot is head up, foot out, this is gonna ride off to my side and I can move through and it still stays vertical, nozzle up, and I’m protecting this. Like, it’s not gonna, uh, get bumped on anything or, or accidentally discharge if my pin falls off.

So it rides very nice and where it needs to go. If I’m gonna switch legs and go put this arm down, I still have the trigger up but now the weight of the can is up against my hip and I can still move through and do whatever I want with the can riding where it needs to go. Also, if you have to, you can run this thing in between your legs.

This is one of the last positions that I like to do and keep this can in between my legs, and the reason being is it now puts the trigger closer to the ground, higher likelihood of it getting accidentally, uh, tripped if the pin falls out, and then it slides around a little bit more on the bottom side, so I have a little bit less control of the can.

However you’re gonna run with this thing in the single-point connection, I like it a lot because all I have to do is when I’m ready to fight, I sit up and the can will sit up vertically on its own and it’s ready to fight

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