r/Firefighting • u/LivingLikeYou • 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/jarboxing May 22 '25

YouTubing "lead leg forward search" yields golf videos.

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u/That_guy_again01 May 22 '25

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MV5bvh2LKZ0 Go to the 13min mark. Although there is some other good stuff throughout the video

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u/KrankenwagenKolya LT/EMT-P May 22 '25

Is that a newer technique, back when I was at the academy we were doing head first for everything including ladder window entry, we just used a pile or irons to sound the floor as we went

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u/Repulsive-Peach435 May 22 '25

It's been around a while. Our dept stopped crawling 15 years ago or so. Not only is tripod ssfer, it's way faster.