Survivable Space Exists!!!!

Posted 01/24/2013 by IRONSandLADDERS
Categories: 3.Search/Rescue/VES
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This is an incredible video out of Corinth MS from a few days ago. Units pull up to a well involved house, with rapidly advancing fire throughout the building. A 9 month old child was dropped out of the window to bystanders and survived. Lt. Chris Duncan is told from the bystanders that the Father is still inside of that room. Conditions are becoming pre flashover very quickly, the Lt. makes a quick VES in the window and removes the adult male to the window just before flashover occurs. Other firefighters outside the window drag the victim away as the Lt. makes a dive out into the yard. The victim is in critical condition but still alive. I extend my gratitude to  Lt. Chris Duncan who made a decision to put the Citizens life above his own and made a move that was rewarded with a second chance on life for this citizen. Job well done, Citizens of Corinth you should be proud of your fire department.

This is a great demonstration of survivable space that can be found in a very well involved home. You can find teachings out there that would tell you the front of this building had no potential for viable victims, and intern to not take the risk for victims. VES and quick recognition of the survivable space saved lives.

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Do Not Fear…The Panic Bar Is Here.

Posted 01/07/2013 by IRONSandLADDERS
Categories: 1. Forcible Entry
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Here is a short Public Service Announcement from your friends at IRONS and LADDERS. This discusses and demonstrates forcible entry on the commonly found panic bars. There is a lot of tricks floating around the internet regarding panic hardware on commercial doors. Not all of them are right or wrong, however most are undependable as a Plan A. Watch the video and end the Panic.

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Bittersweet

Posted 12/12/2012 by IRONSandLADDERS
Categories: 7. Everything Else

Tough fire last shift, multiple burn victims outside. Child still stuck inside. Large body of fire upon arrival. Because of the hard hitting, combat ready crew that I have the honor to work with everyday, we were able to rescue an 8 month old from inside. It was each and every one of them, from the first line protecting the interior search, to the outside Truck team setting up for VES and choosing the right window. All the bases were covered. I don’t take for granted coming to work with a fire company that believes in being our best and giving our neighborhood the best chance possible. Every day they commit to fight complacency and mentor others to the finer points of this trade. They still believe that no matter how many other obligations this profession throws at us, we are still responsible to be the professionals at fighting fire. Cheers to them and what they stand for, Engine 8, Truck 8 2012.

The young child will be fine, however keep the adult and other child in your thoughts as they are both in critical condition in burn units. Thank you.

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Never Forget, Not Just One Day A Year (Part 2)

Posted 12/03/2012 by IRONSandLADDERS
Categories: 7. Everything Else
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By Ryan Royal

December 3rd, 1999, Worcester Massachusetts. It’s an important day and most of us in the Fire Service know exactly what happened and have known this as a significant event in most of our careers. Hopefully we Never Forget, because good men were lost in a valiant effort and also left behind a terribly large number of widows and children. We lost 6 brother firefighters that day, some who were searching for the helpless, and some who were searching for their brothers. A very dramatic fire scene that ended up with a Chief performing an act that could have been one of the hardest decisions he has ever made in his career. The decision to deny entry of any other firefighters, all while knowing he had already potentially lost 6 of his men, and many more could have been lost in the same fashion. This fire changed our fire service, just like so many others, they all bring about some type of lesson.

I have spoke about this specific topic before, the last time was on 9-11 and had the same title (Never Forget, Not Just One Day A Year). What do these fires mean to us? We say Never Forget right? Well for those of us who were not there, were not intimately involved, didn’t see the funeral, or have to remove a brother from a building, what does this mean for us? We say never forget, but it has to run deeper than that, it cannot be something that we share or recognize on that one day of the year in the name of brotherhood. We must truly do our best to honor and remember the never ending list of LODD’s in our Fire Service.

The first step of properly remembering, is to remind yourself not to be “That Guy” when we see the news of the next LODD. That guy that instantly bashes the actions of a firefighter who just lost his life in a fire 2000 miles away in a building that you have never seen, on a fireground that is the same as your next one will be….FAR FROM PERFECT!! This makes me crazy, there’s a time to show respect and mourn, than at a later date there’s a time to learn lessons and critique the actions at the fire. Let me clarify; when I say critique I mean try to figure out what might help us prevent the same situation from happening to our own company. Not pretend like you have all of the answers and that it could have never happened to you. We can learn a tremendous amount from these situations and still keep the values of brotherhood and respect intact.

How else can we remember? We can start by not letting their names be the only part that we remember. They have left us extremely valuable lessons that will continue to save firefighters lives long past their untimely deaths. So many of these fires have changed the way we do business and made us very aware of the many different ways that we could potentially get ourselves into trouble. If this is your profession and you are not studying the lessons that these men and women have posthumously given us, than you are wasting a gift to the brotherhood that they paid for with their life.

It is the most expensive mentorship that we can possibly receive, and the only way for you or I to repay it to our fallen is to carry their name on by teaching and mentoring ourselves and others to the important lessons they left behind. What about the new guys in our profession who were not around when many of these events happen. How are they supposed to “Never Forget” something they never knew. It is our job to make sure they know. We cannot have minds that only draw experience from the years we have worked on this job, it needs to stretch back 100’s of years and constantly be updated with experiences that happened to men long before we were even born. Many in the fire service call this the 300 year mind. This really struck home for me recently as I was training a new guy. As we discussed the topic of the day I spoke of Charleston like it was common terminology, it took me a sentence or two before I realized my probie did not know what I was talking about. I asked, “You know about the Charleston 9 right?” He honestly answered me and confirmed he did not. At first this frustrated me and almost offended me, I thought “How could you not know about Charleston, it only happened 5 years ago”.  I realized, this was my fault not his. He was only 5 months into his career and never worked as a firefighter before this. The Charleston 9, the Worcester 6, Black Sunday, Buffalo, these all happened well before he even picked up an application for this job. These are recent fires, we are not even touching the archives of the Vendome Hotel, 23rd Street or even Brett Tarver.

Think about that as each year goes by in your career. Remember it is absolutely our responsibility to make sure these firefighters did not just leave a “Name” behind, they paid the ultimate sacrifice to the citizens and their families and gave way too much to be just names. They left legacies of mentorship to each and every one of us.

 

Here is a good start, if you don’t know about each and every one of these fires, and know the details and lessons learned. Take it upon yourself to make sure no one around you is clueless about these men.

Worcester Mass, Dec 3rd, 1999. Cold Storage Warehouse Fire
FF Brotherton, FF Jackson, FF Lucey, FF Lyons, FF McGuirk, Lt. Spencer,

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Buffalo NY, August 24th, 2009
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Charleston SC, June 18th 2007. Sofa Super Store Fire

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New York City, NY. Black Sunday, January 23, 2005, also Joe DiBernardo added Nov 22nd, 2011

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San Francisco, CA, June 2nd, 2011. Berkeley Way Fire

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New York City, NY, August 18th 2007. Deutsche Bank Fire

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Modified Rex Tool Video

Posted 11/02/2012 by IRONSandLADDERS
Categories: 1. Forcible Entry
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Here is a short clip of my modified Rex Tool being used to go through the lock on a storefront door with a mortise cylinder. I have been carrying this modified Rex for almost 5 years now and have to say it is probably the most versatile through the lock tool you can have. I don’t carry it all the time but it goes in my pocket for fires, service calls, investigations, etc. Through the lock is a great Plan A on a good majority of Aluminum Stile Doors with Mortise Cylinders. However, it will never happen if you’re not carrying your Rex, this helps you in that complication. 

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Random Photo Album

Posted 10/28/2012 by IRONSandLADDERS
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If you have not visited our facebook page for IRONS and LADDERS, it may be worth your time to swing by it sometime. We post more content on there and link articles from others that are top notch as well. I posted a photo album on there today that has over a hundred pictures of random problems, doors, construction issues and other stuff found from around our district. Nothing shocking, just pictures that I have not used in articles but have some value to them. You can find that album here – IRONSandLADDERS Facebook Album

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“Speak The Truth Even When Your Voice Shakes”

Posted 10/10/2012 by IRONSandLADDERS
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By Ryan Royal

There is a battle brewing in our beloved fire service against an enemy that we can’t battle with 2 1/2 inch smooth bores, it is an old foe that is not new to the fire service by any means but I think we used to handle it in a different way. We used to be able to handle it with a stern, man to man talk out back of the firehouse. Grab a cup, go outside, let it rip, call someones bluff, find a solution and move on like men. Before we move on, let me make something clear, I am not trying to act like an old salt here talking about the good old days of handling problems, but I have been taught and mentored by these people who grew up in that fire service. What is happening currently scares me, because without these talks, without that gruff senior guy calling your bluff and bringing you back down to earth, the enemy grows at a rapid pace. When this enemy grows unchecked it is like a working fire with no water, it grows rapidly and we can not stop it until it is too far gone.

Ego, is this enemy. Unchecked ego especially.

I have it, we all have it, but at what level and how is it kept in check? Unchecked egos advance rapidly, and when this happens you can ensure yourself that integrity will be the next part of a mans character to be sacrificed. The two can’t mix, maybe for a while they can, but at some point your ego can become so powerful that it blinds your reality and you don’t notice the threads of your integrity are slowly unraveling. This job can create an ego and build on it from the day you walk in, it is the nature of the profession. You are being taught that you are now part of the select few called upon to protect the large majority of your city, your told that you will be called when everyone else can not solve their own problems and that you will have the answers one way or another. That failure is not an option and that one way or another no matter what happens, we will do what it takes to get the job done. Right? How would that not develop some healthy pride and ego in a new firefighter? I think that is ok, we need “doers” in this profession, people that need to be held back at times, people that have some pride in themselves with healthy confidence and ego. It comes with the territory, with that said the only way to keep this powerful enemy contained is with a healthy dose of reality to cause humbleness from time to time.

In the firehouse you typically find that reality from your peers, (maybe some more than others) we have each other to call your bluff, to provide some peer pressure and just remind you that there is much more knowledge and wisdom out there than what is contained to a single mans experience. This is very important, there has to be that healthy amount of fear in the back of your mind reminding you that if you voice an opinion or direct your beliefs to others that you have the potential to be called out. You will also find this when you make a mistake, with a few conditions. Our job has plenty of mistakes that come with it, almost every fire has a handful of mistakes that can be found. We are going to make mistakes, but it is how we handle them afterwards that shows true character. If you make a mistake, you will and should be called out on it, because that is what drives improvement. Most firefighters biggest fear of making a mistake is not stemmed from the result of the mistake, it is knowing that others are going to hear or see their mistake which is just as powerful as being called out on it in the first place. You know what prevents being called out on your mistake? From being in that uncomfortable situation of having to explain yourself and all of the uncomfortable questions that have been developed by others having time to think about what you messed up on and how they could have done it better? Own that mistake, just own it, take full responsibility for it! It is good for you, it keeps you grounded and shows integrity, it reminds you that your just another blue collar worker like your fellow firefighters, someone who does and will make mistakes in the future. When you own a mistake it shows leadership, it shows your brothers that not only do you make mistakes but it allows you to own it and explain why and how it happened instead of letting them form their own opinions. I have learned all of this the hard way, but once I did it became a very simple concept. These concepts are a powerful weapon against Egos.

This old driver has called my bluff, its probably what he’s doing in this picture. He might come off rough around the edges to some, but he’s honest, loyal, and a mentor who never had a problem keeping me in check.

We cannot lose the ability to have honest discussions with each other, to provide that pressure that keeps us grounded. If we get to a point where we cannot call someone out when they are wrong because we are afraid it will bite us later in our career, then we are setting a dangerous precedence. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard firefighters talk about a situation that is simply wrong and causing them a great deal of grief, but feel as if they cannot call out the other person because they are more senior or of higher rank. Worried that it will effect them for years to come if they speak the truth and stand up against something that is just plain wrong. If you are in this type of situation and buy into those feelings, you are doing nothing to help yourself or your fellow firefighters, and you are absolutely not helping uphold the tradition of the fire service that is keeping each other held in check.

Where am I going with all of this? It all comes back to this enemy that we must fight in ourselves.I enjoy taking on large projects in the name of our profession getting back to the basics and treating it more like a craft. In the past some of these undertakings have ended up bringing a large amount of recognition to my crew and I.  I personally don’t handle praise well when it comes to situations regarding our job, it makes me uncomfortable. Don’t let that be confused with being unappreciative of the recognition, because I am. But I try to use personal praise or recognition as a reset button for myself. It is a good time to ask myself,  “Am I remaining grounded and what were my original intentions that brought this recognition?” It should remind you that it is not about you, and recognition was never the goal. When I look around  I can quickly come up with a list of people that are better than me at this job, and that are leaders that I can only hope to be like. You should be able to think of these people also…if you can’t and you think your the best firefighter on your job, your not. If you think you have the Company Officer role dialed in better than any of those who have come before you, you do not. Humble yourself and really think of those people that come to mind and strive to model their qualities that made us think of them in the first place. This will keep us grounded. If we WANT to, we can always find someone that does this job better, but we have to want to see it.  I have a list of these people to last me a career.

My Father (On the Left) has conquered this enemy, this unchecked Ego. He is a shining example of how you can advance through the ranks from follower to leader but remain a man of strong character. He believes in his people and treats them with respect. He does not believe that because he is their leader he has to have all of the answers or know everything that someone may ask. He would never ask someone to do something he wouldn’t do himself, and most importantly he always puts his people before himself. When integrity and respect is what you show as a leader, you will have a loyal following that will trust you even when they don’t fully agree. He treats leadership as a gift and a honor, and does not egotistically demand respect because of rank, he earns it through consistent, level headed decision making based on the simple differences between right and wrong.  I think his greatest downfall is the size of shoes he has left me when it comes to leadership, they would take me a lifetime to fill what he’s done in 25 years.

“Speak The Truth Even When Your Voice Shakes”. To me that quote can be summed up very simply, it is not going to be easy, but it is the right thing to do. It is the only way to prevent Egos from running rampant throughout our ranks. It can be done respectfully, it can be done firmly, but the bottom line is it must be done. When egos become strong enough that integrity becomes compromised it becomes very difficult to show that person the results. By the time you call them out, the ego has become so strong that they will fail to recognize their faults because they cannot fathom themselves doing such wrong. When we get to that point in the game, it is too late in the 4th quarter. For the sake of this great fire service and its future, speak the truth even if your voice shakes. Grab that cup of coffee, bring a guy out back and dish out an ass chewing when it is needed, and then the next time your on the other side of that conversation take a hard look at yourself,and remind yourself why that man on man honest conversation is such an important tradition to this fire service. Don’t get offended, don’t get angry, and for Gods sake do not hold it against them. Check yourself and move on.

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September 11th 2012

Posted 09/12/2012 by IRONSandLADDERS
Categories: Uncategorized

110 stories. 343 climbers. Full Gear and SCBA. Sweat, Pain , Challenge…..Not even close to what they went through that day. This is the least we can do to remember. My crew will Never Forget, 9-11-2001. RIP

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The PIG Forcible Entry Tool Review

Posted 09/09/2012 by IRONSandLADDERS
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Ryan Royal

Before I start my review let me preface this with a few thoughts. Any of you that have taken our classes know that I am not an easy critic when it comes to tools and their designs. The fire service tool market is full of gimmicks, and a good portion of the tools being sold and marketed to us are simply to make money. There are a large selection of hand tools, personal tools, and so on, that manufactures make a large amount of money on because they know we will buy them and fill our pockets with every multi tool under the sun. Attention to detail when it comes to tools and power saws is something I have tried to focus on for the last few years, I am trying to fight the good fight and educate as many firefighters that are willing to listen about quality made Halligans, hooks, saws and whatever else I can get my hands on. I have done a few tool reviews, and turned down even more, because when they have contacted us I have been open and honest, letting them know that I don’t believe in their tool and I am not interested in advertising something that I don’t stand behind 100%. I know I wont get it right all the time, and I am sure I will fall for a gimmick here and there, but let it be known I am trying my best to weed out the money makers and find the tools that are going to be workhorses for many firegrounds to come. Rant ended…

A few months back I was in contact with Chris Moren from Lonestar Axe Company, he is a firefighter for the Austin Fire Department and the inventor of the PIG. Chris is a good guy and has his head in the fire service game. I liked to see that this tool had humble beginnings from being developed by a firefighter on the streets. Chris thought the blade was the weakest link between the pick head and the flat head axe. From this very simple combination, the PIG was born.

The PIG has a head that measures 10.5 inches long, this includes the pick, which is 4.5 inches by itself. It weighs 8 lbs and  is made from 57 tool steel heat treated to a hardness scale of 46-50. The head comes in a few different options, polished or unpolished and the other option is notched or not. I will talk about this feature in just a little while. The handles can be ordered in a 28″, 32″, or 36″ versions, these handles are made by the Fire Axe Inc. The PIG also has a newer option to the handle choices which is the same type of handle that glows. All of these options can be seen on the PIGs website or Facebook page.

The PIG that was reviewed by IRONS and LADDERS was a 36″ regular handle with a notched pick head. I received the PIG a few months back, out of the box I liked the feel of it, the weight, construction quality etc, but I don’t fall easily just based on looks and feel, so I reserved my judgement until I could get it on the rig and put it to work. I like to presume all tools are gimmicks until proven otherwise. Well the PIG knew how to start a good relationship with its reviewer. The next day I placed it on the Truck, not even 3 hours later we caught a good working house fire in our first due area. The PIG got put to work immediately, it was a good fire and required an hour or two of solid work by the Truck Co due to a large amount of attic extension. The first job the PIG got put to work doing was opening up the roof. My crew and I made our way to the roof and had to open up a 4 foot wide trench from the peak down both sides all the way to the outside walls. I went to work on one side making my louvers. The 8 lb head easily crushed through the plywood decking, I quickly crushed out 4’x4′ squares. When doing this type of crushing tactic there is no need to make a continuous cut, the crushes can easily have a few inches in between each crush and still louver when you are ready. Once my areas were crushed out, the PIG then showed another quality that I liked, I could easily spin the tool and sink my pick into the louver of the roof. This secured my tool to the louver which allowed me to pry on the fiberglass handle with all of my weight and pivot open my louvers over the roof joists.


Photos By: Steven D. “Smitty” Smith


Like I said, bringing me a fire and then getting a good hard work assignment was a great way to set a first impression for me of the PIG. The 8lb head mixed with the 36″ handle was a perfect combination for the work that was required on that roof. It is weighted very well and feels good during your swing. The advantage of opening roofs with the flat head, especially with a plywood deck, is that it prevents the tool from getting stuck and pinched like the blade on a normal axe can do. I also liked having the pick side for driving into the fascia and other trim boards and then prying them off the gable ends of the building. For roof work and exterior overhaul I was very impressed with its capability, it performed extremely well on this job. However I needed a lot more time with the tool to give a fair and honest review. This type of work, especially on its first day shows me very little about its durability, it was only being used on wood and asphalt shingles. So onward we move.

I was able to put the PIG to use on another half dozen structure fires and was pleased with its basic duties. My next plan for the tool was to put it through the durability ringer by bringing it to our forcible entry classes and having the students abuse it in many different ways. We brought it to multiple classes and used it at both the conventional forcible entry stations and also at the carriage bolt and drop bar stations. By doing this I would give you a rough estimate that we forced over 300 doors which caused a few thousand metal on metal strikes with this tool. This type of abuse will give us a very accurate look at what type of durability the PIG will have.

After going through this many forcible entry evolutions the PIG showed some signs of normal wear. The handle had some pretty good dings and chunks missing right below the tools head from over strikes by the students. All of this appeared to be cosmetic and was little concern to me, these type of handles are very strong and can take a good amount of cosmetic damage. The actual steel on the flat head also showed some dings and roundness on the square edges, however there was very little mushrooming for that amount of use. The PIG obviously uses higher quality steel then your common fire service axes, this has advantages and disadvantages that follow. We go through a lot of axes over the years while teaching the forcible entry classes. It only takes one or two classes before the heads are mushroomed so bad that they must be filed down. The PIG did not need this type of maintenance after this round of classes. This shows that the durability of the tool head is very strong. One thing to take notice of when your axes are very high grade tool steel; the energy has to be transferred somewhere, so if your axe head is not showing the mushrooming then there is a good chance that your Halligans will. This was a concern for me when we started using the PIG, I did not want to have all of the damage being given to the Halligans instead of the axe. I was happy to find that the PIG does have very hard steel, however it is not has hard as some other axe companies on the market. I found this to be a good thing, it holds up enough to prevent significant mushrooming but still did not cause severe damage to the Halligans like some other brands of axes have before. The head also stayed very secure and had zero wobble to it, this is very rare for our axes after a few classes. We break heads off or loosen them up on a regular basis.

The tool proved to be a very good striking tool for forcible entry, I loved the weight of it and again it was balanced very well in your hand for multiple controlled strikes. The only disadvantage I found during forcible entry operations was the use of the axe blade in some situations. It can be handy to have and axe blade for wedging the door open while forcing, or also creating a large gap in tight fitting outward swinging doors. You lose this ability with the PIG because of the lack of a blade. While this is a disadvantage, it is not a deal breaker for me. Our Truck firefighters typically all carry an axe, so as long as your operations are being done with two of you available then I would suspect that you will have a PIG and a regular axe available. Wooden wedges can also be used in these situations.

Something else that I felt needed modification was the notch. If I was to order a PIG again I would order it without the notch. The notch is an option on the PIG and it is designed to help you marry your Halligan to the PIG to make a set of Irons. I don’t carry my Irons married in that fashion very often, so it would not be a big deal for me to loose this option on the tool.  I found that when burying the pick of PIG  in both roofing material and in metal doors, the notch had a tendency to make it difficult when trying to retrieve your tool. I had multiple times in a metal door where I had to really wrestle with the tool to get the notch undone from the jagged metal. We went back to the old firehouse fabrication shop and easily fixed this problem. It didn’t make it perfect, but it made the notch a lot better. You can see below the first picture shows how the PIG comes from the factory, all we did to improve on the problem was take a flap wheel and an angle grinder and smooth out the sharp clean edges of the notch. It was only necessary to do this on the part of the notch that would catch when pulling your tool out of the material.


While this is a disadvantage, I won’t take points away from my overall opinion because the PIG offers the tool with or without the notch. That solves the problem and it is one of those small characteristics that you just can’t predict without getting some good quality time on the tool.We discovered this problem while using the pick for something that is a unique advantage to the PIG. When forcing doors, many times the pick of the Halligan can be used to drive carriage bolts through the door defeating whatever locking device was attached. The PIG can also be used for this type of operation in a couple of different ways.


As you can see above, one person striking the flat side of the PIG can drive the sturdy pike through the door causing massive damage to the material holding on to the locking mechanism. It is not better than the Halligan but worked in a very similar fashion without much difficulty.

The unique option to the PIG was being able to swing the PIG like a baseball bat directly at the door trying to hit the bolt with the pick of the tool. After one or two hits to get your aim down, we were able to drive bolts through the door in only a few good swings and without the need for another firefighter to strike for us. We were also able to inflict damage much faster because the energy of the tool was being transferred directly into the door, whereas when you are striking a Halligan you lose energy when the axe is striking the Halligan.

After a long testing period and some rigorous evolutions I can honestly say that I am very impressed with this tool. A lot of tools come and go in this profession and very few come close to our tried and true pick head axe, flat head axe and Halligan bar. Tools that don’t try to do too much and have a specific job always perform better than the “do everything 14 and 1 tools” that plague the fire service. I think the PIG fits into this category of being a simple, basic and very efficient tool. To be honest I am very surprised someone did not design this tool years ago, it is such a simple concept and combines the most used ends of the axe. The durability is top notch and the options are great. I would like to try the 32″ handle, I did like the 36″ handle a lot, especially for outside and roof work. The 32″ handle is just a little smaller so that crawling and searching is a bit easier without sacrificing your force when swinging. I foresee this becoming a very popular tool in the fire service, it is a workhorse with a very solid design. The best combination I see is instead of two firefighters carrying axes, have one carry the PIG and one carry an axe of their choice. This along with their normal hook and Halligan compliments adds a very versatile set of tools for your fire ground. I will be recommending this tool to my department to at least outfit our Truck Companies. I can think of a half dozen tools that sit on our rigs that our extremely useless in comparison to the PIG. A job very well done by Chris Moren, I think he is on to something with this tool and I can officially declare that this tool is no gimmick. Far from it.

You can check out the PIG at Lonestar Axe Co 

Also visit his Facebook page here to see a large variety of videos with the PIG in action along with other reviews and updates.

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Hands On Forcible Entry Class September 8th and 9th

Posted 08/31/2012 by IRONSandLADDERS
Categories: Uncategorized

September 8th or 9th
Full Day 8am to 5pm
Hands On Forcible Entry Class
Colorado Springs, CO

35.00 a person

 

 

The Pikes Peak Firefighters Association is holding a three day training symposium September 7th, 8th and 9th. This will consist of classroom and speakers the first day, and numerous hands on classes the remaining days. We have been asked to teach the forcible entry classes for both days. What does this mean for you? If you are interested in taking our Hands On, Full Day Forcible Entry Class this will be the cheapest you are going to find it. The PPFA is absorbing a large portion of the costs through sponsors and offering our class for $35.00 a person. That is almost 100.00 off our typical price. You have two days to pick from, we will be doing the same class both days (September 8th or 9th). If you have the time there is also other classes being offered and Fire Service Warrior will be flying in an instructor to teach also. Please visit their website and grab a spot if you are interested.

Pikes Peak Firefighters Training Symposium

Again we will not be able to offer our class for anywhere near this price again in the near future, so if you have been wanting to take one but didn’t want to spend the money, than this is the class for you.

 

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