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DAY 3: Cement Air chisel
February 25 - Tonight were were able to train on our other concrete breaching tool, an air chisel
with an tip designed to breach concrete. We were able to compare it and see which was more effective, the
air chisel or the concrete saw. After a hole was made in the wall, all firefighters who attended the training
squeezed through the hole.
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| Lt. Wilson and FF/Engineer Amos use
a jackhammer to breach the wall |
FF Asturids using the air chisel to break
through the wall |
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| Lt. Wilson climbing through the
cement wall |
FF Pinella being assisted
through the wall by his fellow firefighters. |
DAY 2: CUTTING
THROUGH CEMENT WALLS
February 23rd - This evening training involved our Cutters Edge Cement cutting saw. Under the instruction
of Captain Middleton and Chief Ries, we used the saw to breach one of the cement walls within the movie theatre.
The main purpose of this in a real fire would be to allow for the rescue of a firefighter who is trapped in a
building where the walls are made of cement cinder blocks. While one firefighter was using the saw, a
second firefighter would use a sledge hammer to break the cinderblocks.
We also used the K-12 saw off Ladder 25 with a
concrete blade to see how different the cuts were.
Everyone was
in agreement by the end of the night that the Cutters Edge performed
the best at breaching an interior cement wall.
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| FF/Engineer Amos making the
first cut using the Cutters Edge saw |
FF Cunha using the K-12, while
FF Handzo applies water to keep the dust to a minimum |
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Chief Ries took a few swings with the sledge
hammer to break through the second hole |
Captain Inzano using the
cutters edge to cut a second hole in the cement wall. |
DAY 1: EMERGENCY ESCAPE THOUGH A WALL
February 22nd - The owners of the old movie theatre in Rutgers Plaza on Easton Ave generously allowed us to
use the movie theatre for any types of non-live fire training we could think of. The first training we did was in
firefighter survival and the breaching of walls when an emergent situation occurs that
necessitates exiting one room
and entering another when the initial method of entry has become compromised. This typically
involved a firefighter removing
his or her air pack, placing the airpack through the hole (while still having it connected to his or her
face piece so he or she
is breathing the air from the bottle), and then climbing through into the next room.
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| Firefighter Moldomado making his way through a hole he cut in the wall with a flat headed ax |
FF Martin forcing his way though the hole that he justcut |
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Firefighter Sudo being assisted thought the hole he cut by another
firefighter |
FF Handzo getting ready to put
his airpack through the hole before he climbs through it |
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