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/Vrasz May 22 '25

Lol he said look it up. Definitely not crawling backwards. It's an upright posture, sitting back on one heel and extending the other foot forward, sounding the floor with that heel, and then planting that foot and pulling your body forward onto the ground that you just checked with that heel.

If there's a hole or soft spot the lead foot finds it, but the majority of your body weight is back away from the risk. And with an upright body you can actually look forward instead of staring at the floor underneath you or the brim of your helmet