FIRE SERVICE FORCED ENTRY

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FIRE SERVICE FORCED ENTRY
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Swinging cutting tools

• use a proper stance
• use short strokes
• swing no higher than your shoulders
• angle your strikes
• be aware of your surroundings
• people
• wires, etc.
• Keep tool head in sight while swinging

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BOLT/WIRE CUTTERS

• Bolt Cutters
• cables, chains, pins
• ANYTHING NOT CASE HARDENED
• Wire Cutters
• De-energized ONLY

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HALLIGAN BAR

• Deputy Chief Hugh Halligan in the 40s
• 3 prying tools, each w/ striking surface
• ADZE end
• Pick, hook or horn
• forked end
• New standard, one piece construction

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Halligan uses

• Pick
• spot ventilation points
• manhole covers
• padlocks
• ladder braces
• footing on roofs

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Halligan uses

• Fork
• gas meter shut offs
• numerous prying situations
• limited to user

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HALLIGAN BAR USES

• The HOOK may be buried into a roof for
• 1- A step
• 2- An inspection hole

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The key to all prying tools isLEVERAGE
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MAINTENANCE

• WOOD
• Inspect for cracks, splinters, etc.
• Sand rough spots
• Wash warm water simple green
• Linseed oil on handle, no paint or varnish
• Check head tightness
• FIBERGLASS/NUPLA
• Wash w/ simple green and warm water
• Check head for tightness

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MAINTENANCE

• Edges
• Inspect for burrs, nicks. FILE as needed
• DO NOT GRIND
• File to a medium sharpness
• Metal Surfaces
• Keep rust free
• Lightly oil
• DO NOT PAINT

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GOLDEN RULES OF FORCED ENTRY

• TRY BEFORE YOU PRY
• Do a good door size-up
• Force obstacles in the direction that they were
  meant to travel
• THINK
• Use leverage

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GOLDEN RULES OF FORCED ENTRY (CONT.)

• Think about other safer, faster ways in
• Work tools DONT LET THEM WORK YOU

FORCE A DOOR, CHOCK THAT DOOR
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Door Size Up
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SECTIONAL or FOLDING

• Center latch usually controls two slide locking
  bar on either side of door
• Pry up from the center
• Remove a panel to access the latch
• Usually secondary locks on door
• Find easier way in

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Pivoting or Overhead Slab Doors

• Center latch usually controls two slide locking
  bar on either side of door
• Pry out at both sides
• Make sure path is clear to travel
• Remove a panel to access the latch
• Usually secondary locks on door
• Find easier way in

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Rolling Steel Doors

• Usually a security type door
• Locked numerous ways
• Use metal cutting blade
• Cut triangle
• One vertical cut, remove slats of doors
• Look for handle or motor housing during size-up

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FIRE DOORS

• Fire doors protect door openings in walls that
  are required to be rated as a fire barrier
• SLIDING
• HORIZONTAL AND SLIDING
• SWINGING
• SINGLE AND DOUBLE
• OVERHEAD ROLLING
• Most difficult to force

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FIRE DOORS OPERATE

• Self Closing
• when opened, it self closes. Duh
• Automatic
• normally open, closes when hold-open device trips
  

BLOCK OPEN FORCED FIRE DOORS
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TYPES OF LOCKING DEVICES

• Rim locks- installed ON a door, near edge (RIM).
  Usually as a second lock
• Mortise locks- installed INSIDE a door cavity by
  a locksmith or built in the door
• Tubular deadbolt- Combo of BOTH. Controls a
  deadbolt that rides a hollow tube inside the
  door edge. Keyed on back or turn knob.

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TYPES OF LOCKING DEVICES

• KEY-in-KNOB- Typical interior household
  knob/lock.
• Auxiliary lock- Pad locks, drop bars, slide bolts
  or any combo. thereof

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THROUGH THE LOCK METHODS

• USING THE K TOOL

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• Use channel locks or vise grips to attempt to
  loosen a mortise cylinder lock

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• Use VISE GRIPS to loosen and remove a mortise
  cylinder lock
• If a lock is inaccessible with a K tool, drive
  a straight slot into the key hole and loosen with
  a pair of VISE GRIPS

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• Place the tool over the lock
• Drive the tool onto the lock with a striking tool
• PRY the lock in the opposite direction

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Tubular locks may call for different tools to
unlock
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SHOVE KNIFE

• Flat steel
• Easy to make
• Very useful on doors that swing out

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• Use vise grips to maintain control of a door
• Use to control a padlock with a irons

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Additional Forcible Entry Techniques

• The following slides will be discussed in
  detailed during the in service training.

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HORIZONTAL DOOR CUTThis cut usually avoids all
locking devices and security bars.
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If you fail to see the Easter Bunny this year,
blame Robert.
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J.C. hiding the evidence.
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How many walls do you have to breach before you
get inside?
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Checkrail Windows

• Double hung
• 2 sashes
• Pry at center of lower sash
• Breakout pane of glass

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Casement Windows

• Hinged windows
• 1 or 2 sashes hinged on the side
• Screens on inside
• Hand cranks make difficult to force
• Break glass

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Projected Windows

• Factory windows
• OUT swings out at bottom
• IN swings in at top
• Break glass and operate crank or find another way
  in

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Awning/Jalousie Windows

• Numerous panels
• All open when operated
• Most difficult
• AVOID

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LEXAN

• 250 times stronger than safety glass
• 50 lighter than glass
• Rotary/Cutoff saw
• Freeze and strike

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