Drills You Won't Find in the Books

[@Kodiac400cc]

Great video. Thanks for all your time

[@benhutchings3978]

You leave the portable hangs out from under the coat on your side. Your side is easier to reach if you’re pinned than your chest. Your belts will in no way impede handling your radio if you wear the radio strap correctly

[@wacojones8062]

Good presentation, Train as you will operate. Practice skills under adverse conditions in the dark alone no back up when it is safe to do so. With backup only when the person practicing would be at serious risk if something is done wrong. I used to rock climb I had a rope rig in a willow tree to train on doing rope ascent then re-rig and descend 5 laps blindfolded in the dark without touching the ground or the tree. Motor skills take fifty plus repetitions to become close to fail safe.

[@csolomon1993]

I use a Velcro mic loop that PD uses. It attaches to the Velcro on the inside of my turnout coat. Keeps my lapel close enough to hear, to "key-up", but most of all it is secure with the no exposed cords. The radio is held by a radio strap inside my coat with the actual radio hanging low out of the heaviest heat and on the outside of my coat.

[@nathanhabisch9052]

Uu

[@garritttoews8996]

I carry my radio in the Boston strap. However I carry it low enough that I can still get to the buttons below the hem of my coat.

[@mattf4212]

I do as well. That way, should the lapel microphone fail, I have a secondary means of communication.

[@SlavkoRybak]

Appreciate, very interesting.

[@danski6694]

Wow. Never in my career saw the HT chord strung around someone’s neck on the outside. People do that?

[@hankaaron3942]

Let’s breathe in smoke so we know what it feels like.

[@DowntownDeuce2]

THE IDIOTIC THUMBNAIL IMAGE BROUGHT ME HERE. WHY WOULD I PLACE A CORD, OR TETHER, ON A DEVICE THAT IS IN ITSELF A TETHER ?!? ONE MORE THING TO GET ENSNARED OR TANGLED. These products cater to the gearqueer mall fireman with more money than experience. This is not a career, or even a job to them. It is a hobby and a competition for gadgets. Notice FDNY Detroit and New Orleans are minimalist? FAIL.

[@budguy21]

Again you miss the point. Its ok, some people just dont get it.

[@DowntownDeuce2]

@@budguy21 Again, spoken like a novice volunteer dept. wannabe. You are getting mighty emotional. I'm sorry if the truth about your mentor hurts; facts do not care about your delicate feelings. Some people lack the faculties to address and accept reality. Get a different hobby, you're failing miserably at this. Maybe you can post some videos, of surviving falling into molten lava, skydiving without a parachute, or surviving exposure to a nuclear reactor core. REMIND US, WHAT DEPARTMENT ARE YOU WITH? IN WHAT CAPACITY?

[@budguy21]

@@DowntownDeuce2 You're right about flashover, but I'm thinking beyond his actual words. I think the principle has value in a high heat environment pre-flashover.

[@DowntownDeuce2]

@@budguy21 THEY pay me to be right. If the heat is sufficient to damage or compromise thermoplastics the human is already dead. ANYONE who teaches such pedantic nonsense shouldn't be teaching at all, especially when he can't stumble through basic terminology. The viewer should not have to speculate on the speakers intent. It would have been easier just to concede that he was wrong in the beginning; but at least you had time to look up flashover and learn that it is fatal. None of that really matters as it is an authoritarian approach to an argument. The fact is, the basics that are understood by a first week recruit got past you. That is not the hallmark of an experienced man. Wise man is able to admit he is wrong and doesn't have to resort to an authoritarian approach to justify his actions or position