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| Techniques used by fire personnel to gain entry into buildings, vehicles, aircraft, or other areas of confinement when normal means of entry are locked or blocked. |
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| Cutting Tools, Prying Tools, Pushing/Pulling Tools, Striking Tools. |
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| The four categories of forcible entry tools. |
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| The most common type of cutting tool. Two basic types are the pick-head and the flat-head. |
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| Prying tool with a claw at one end and a spike or point at a right angle to a wedge at the other end. |
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| Sharp prong and hook of steel, on a wood, metal, fiberglass, or plastic handle of varying length, used for pulling, dragging and probing. |
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| Swinging, sliding, revolving, overhead. |
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| Ways in which doors function from a forcible entry standpoint. |
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| Three types of wooden swinging doors. |
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| Doors made of solid wooden members inset with panels made of wood or other materials such as glass, Lexan polycarbonate plastic, or Plexiglas acrylic. Panels held in place by molding. |
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| The most common type of doors in use today. Constructed as either solid core or hollow core. |
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| Also known as "batten doors". Made of tongue and groove planks fastened to horizontal and diagonal ledge boards. Found in warehouses, storerooms, barns, sheds, and similar structures. Usually have pin type hinges fastened with screws or bolts. |
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| Classified as hollow metal, metal clad, and tubular. More difficult to force due to the materials of which they are constructed. |
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| Panic-proof, drop-arm, and metal braced. |
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| Three basic types of mechanisms used to lock revolving doors open. |
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| Sectional, tilt-slab, roll-up, and telescoping. |
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| Classifications of overhead doors. |
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| 4 basic rules from FF Schnapp handout |
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1. Try before you pry.
2. Don't ignore the obvious.
3. If possible, use the door that the occupants normally use to enter or exit the premises.
4. Maintain the integrity of the door. |
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| 2 principle methods for forcible entry. |
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1. Conventional
2. Through the lock |
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| If the hinges are visible or the door frame is flush with the wall, the door swings________. |
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| If the hinges are not visible or the door frame is recessed, it swings _________. |
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| During size up, after determining which way the door swings you consider three things in order to force entry. |
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1. The strength of the door.
2. The type of lock.
3. The door frame and wall that holds it. |
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| Captain Robert R. Morris in his hand out on conventional forcible entry uses what 3 steps with the irons. |
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| 4 types of door locks most commonly found. |
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| Mortise, Rim, Tubular deadbolt, Knob and Key. |
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| Most common cut for forcible entry on a rollup door. |
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| Inverted "V" or "tee-pee" cut. |
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