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Firefighter Tools: Knives
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Summary: Firefighters use tools such as the pick headed axe to pry up floor boards and roofing. See gear, such as the pick headed axe, firefighters use and find out how they use the pick headed axe when fighting fire or removing a victim from a vehicle in this free video featuring a professional firefighter.
Captain Joe Bruni has over three decades of experience as a street firefighter and company officer. Bruni has experience as a department training officer in the fire and rescue safety...read more
"The pick headed axe is one of the most important tools we use as a firefighter. There's two types of axes carried by most firefighters. The flat headed axe or the pick headed axe. The pick headed axe is a specialty tool that's not only a cutting tool but it's also a tool that's a prying tool. The pick side of the axe once a cut is made in floor boards or roofing material is used as a prying tool to remove or pry those floor boards or roofing material up and out of the hole that we are trying to access to. One of the things that the pick headed axe should never be used for is a striking tool, that's reserved for the flat headed axe or the sledgehammer. So it has its limitations but it is one of the most effective tools to be carried, especially by a truck company firefighters, who are support firefighters to open up and do forcible entry operations and ventilation at any structure fire. The pick headed axe is an excellent tool. There's many of them that come with wooden handles, this one has a fiber glass or plastic handle. I would recommend the fiber glass or plastic handle to avoid breaking it at critical points during an operation. The pick headed axe, excellent tool to be carried by most firefighters."
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