r/Firefighting • u/LivingLikeYou • 2d ago

Videos What are your thoughts on this?

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u/FynnCobb 2d ago

Listen, man. I wasn’t there.

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But the optics are B-A-D

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u/ziobrop LT. 2d ago

yah. i get wanting to mask up, but if your going to do it right there, with all the stuff falling, make the grab. its no more risk to you then you already have.

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u/JshWright "Retired" FF/P 2d ago

100%. He would have spent less time in a dangerous environment if he had just made the grab and GTFO.

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u/CriticPerspective 2d ago

This. He was already in the smoke, took him longer to mask up than to make the grab.

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u/uncommon_sense136789 2d ago

Agreed. I’m Never gonna tell another member to not mask up. But plz remember optics are a thing that we must account for. There is always a camera on you.

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u/HedonisticFrog 2d ago

Definitely, it's why as an EMT we learned to discretely trap pinch to test for consciousness instead of blatantly sternum rubbing them which makes you look like a dick.

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u/Legitimate_Sample108 2d ago

Trap pinch ? I use to grab the eyelashes to catch the fakers.

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u/SamsquanchVT 1d ago

Ball tap is where it is at.

And if the patient doesn’t have balls, a solid tea bagging works too.

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u/Unique-Team6478 17h ago

When did sternal rubbing fall out of fashion? This was how we were trained.

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u/ffa1985 10h ago

Sternal rub is still the standard, but trapezius pinch will probably overtake it in a few years. Some research says the pinch is more reliable.

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u/IvanTSR 2d ago

Forget the optics - this is the right way to think about it. Really you should have your gear on a squared before being next to the fully involved structure...