Forcible entry look at the top pic only first.

 

We made a small fire at a dry cleaners in our neighborhood.  After I found this door.

Ask yourself and your crew some simple questions. 

Which door is the majority of travel through?

How would I force either door?

Look for these things in your territory they are out there and are easily handled with some thought and planning.  If you flip the door pic around it will match the inside pics?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tips From The Table - Through the Lock Forcible Entry

Great school Tips from the Table.

LA County (Softening a Structure)

http://vimeo.com/user15913399

Helpful tidbits from LA County

Haligan Tuning

Video from Inforcer about taking care of your haligan.

The Pig forcing an inward swinging door w_ baseball swing

http://www.youtube.com/v/pdzQoLtxmcI?version=3&autohide=1&autoplay=1&autohide=1&feature=share&showinfo=1&attribution_tag=3vou6w8twugQjxNcG6WtAA

PigHold

http://www.youtube.com/v/_JGD2j71hgg?version=3&autohide=1&autoplay=1&attribution_tag=QQdTmGYrbZs4QwqnCViB-Q&autohide=1&showinfo=1&feature=share

Philadelphia FD Rescue-1 1991

Philadelphia Rescue 1  born again in 1991 Thanks Grass


http://www.youtube.com/v/tuJ2eNcQHnY?version=3&autohide=1&autohide=1&feature=share&showinfo=1&autoplay=1&attribution_tag=evphI0flARYwU3PopZv-Qg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOiUsJjuik8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUf1lynyrwA

Forcible Entry: The Bam Bam Tool

Bam Bam  who has one?  Have not seen one in a while.

Beyond the Academy: Video Training Series - Forcing Slide Bolts & Drop Bars

Have a plan for every door and carry it out. 

OVM Chained gate

Faster than a saw?  Good work Seattle the welds on these are very weak and easy to overcome.
Thanks, Patch

Newark Bar Removal

Nice video showing how to defeat different types of bars.  Does your department use truck guys or a Ric team to remove these? 

Forcible Entry Challenge

I had never seen these before, good challenge.  How are you getting in?  We can defeat this but very unexpected.  Thanks Cap Rush  

Forcing Doors with Mike Perrone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv4fkhQTuhA&feature=em-subs_digest

Good video

Captain Joseph Dupree LODD

This video was created after the LODD of Captain Joseph Dupree.  It is an older video )late 1990's)but it contains great information.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPm9J3fU82c

Here is the LODD report
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/fire/reports/face9807.html

Conventional Force Entry

 If the video does not play on your cell phone click here http://youtu.be/T3arbLlAIjU .

If You are good at Techniques you don't need Tricks HaHa

Thanks Seattle
Watch 3 things
Setting the tool
Capturing the Gap (With the Axe)
Using Leverage (NY Hook)

Officers Tool

Love this forcible entry video.  Great use of the tool and letting it do the work.  Do any officers carry this?  Look at the back side of the lock mechanisms.  It shows you how you are gonna manipulate the lock.  Thx   Search and Destroy

Inforcer

Check out the Inforcer door prop at FDIC.  Hands down the best forcible entry training door.

Fire Engineering Training Minutes, Season 11 has a great video about techniques to avoid skinning a door during forcible entry.  On the right of the first video click "Skinning a Door."

 

 

A great video from Nick Martin and Fire Engineering Magazine.  Love a detailed look at the door.  Check out this metal wedge  look at the steps in the tips.  They help capture progress.  What else can we be using for single firefighter techniques?                                                                                         

 

Baseball Swing on Inward Swinging Door

This is Chris Moren (18A) with a quick one firefighter technique for an inward swinging door with a wooden frame.

This is another technique from Dan Self (E11A).

Here is an excellent video by Mike Perrone using a haligan on a wood frame.  Click here for the actually video.

Reinforced Window Screens

These reinforced window screens were found at the apartments on 51st street. I know we have these on at least two more high occupancy apartments in 18's territory. 

The screens were defeated relatively easy with a little practice, but they would definitely slow you down if you were not prepared.

This video shows the strengths of the window screens.

This video shows one technique for forcing these screens.  We found that it also works well to attack the bottom edge.