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

Videos Firefighter training. What are your thoughts?

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u/screen-protector21 May 22 '25

Good lesson in why we tripod

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u/im_a_realist_FF42023 May 22 '25

Since you mentioned that, why are we still building props that only allow us to search on all 4’s with our heads down?

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u/PhaedrusZenn May 23 '25 edited May 23 '25

Maybe you were making a push in a commercial building that just experienced partial collapse, and this is where you find yourself? 

**Additional thought; have you ever tried to tripod in a hoarder house? You'll find yourself crawling through narrow passages in the junk to get from point a to point b. Crawling is a reality. 

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u/andeusmc03 VA Career FF/EMT May 23 '25

How often do we do that?

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u/PhaedrusZenn May 23 '25

Not that often...which is why you practice for it? I mean, we don't typically go into fires with hoods over our masks, but we still do it to simulate worst-case scenarios, so why wouldn't this be along the same lines?