r/Firefighting May 22 '25

Videos Firefighter training. What are your thoughts?

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u/That_guy_again01 May 22 '25

Look up lead leg forward search. Search like this will make you fall in a hole when you find one. Also it’s slow and forces you to keep your head down. Lead leg forward does all of the opposite.

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u/apatrol May 22 '25

Yall crawl backwards? All the time or just on floors that could collapse?

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u/FunkyMonkeysPaw May 22 '25

It’s not crawling backwards, your more of sitting on your back heal/on that knee, and you bring your “lead” foot out, it lets you feel if there is anything you’re gonna trip/get cause on, while allowing you the position to really get that leg pretty far out, I like to kinda hit my heel down to test the floor too. But the base argument is that your weight is back, your lead foot checks the floor, if you find no floor you’re not fully stepping on that foot.