Training Minutes Revisited: Hostile Search

In this Training Minutes video, Anthony Avillo and Frank Ricci share tips on conducting a hostile search in a bathroom and fire room.

These videos are for training demonstration purposes only. When you perform these techniques at emergency scenes and evolutions, be sure to wear full PPE and adhere to your agency’s procedures and policies.

This video originally ran on the Fire Engineering site in early 2009. Subscribe to our YouTube channel HERE.

RELATED TRAINING

The Search Reformation

Residential Search: Applying the Principles

Search and Rescue Above the Fire

Flashover! A Near Miss During a Vent-Enter-Search

Conducting a Common Hallway Rope-Assisted Search

 

Hand entrapped in rope gripper

Elevator Rescue: Rope Gripper Entrapment

Mike Dragonetti discusses operating safely while around a Rope Gripper and two methods of mitigating an entrapment situation.
Delta explosion

Two Workers Killed, Another Injured in Explosion at Atlanta Delta Air Lines Facility

Two workers were killed and another seriously injured in an explosion Tuesday at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport.