Chapter 11 Forcible Entry Flashcards
When are forcible entries required?
Forcible Entry Situations?
- Forcible entry is usually required at emergency incidents where time is a critical factor.
- Company officers usually select both the point of entry and the method to be used.
Forcible Entry Strategy? (4)
- Try before you pry
- Don’t ignore the obvious
- Use most commonly used entrance or exit
- Maintain the integrity of the door
General Tool Safety?
- Always wear PPE
- Learn to recognize the materials used in building and construction and the appropriate tools and techniques used for each kind of material. (case-hardened steel)
- keep tools in ready state, Keep all tools ready to go clean properly serviced according to manuel, Immediately report damaged tools.
- Do not leave tools lying around.
Striking Tools
generate an impact force directly on a object or another tool. ex.
- Flat Head Axe
- Battering Ram
- Sledgehammer
Prying/ Spreading Hand Tools
Hand tools designed for prying and spreading
- Halligan Tool (adz, pick, claw (fork)
- Pry Bar/Hux Bar/Crow Bar
- Pry Axe- used on doors and windows
- Hydraulic Spreaders- Rabbet and extrication devices
Cutting Tools
Primarily used for cutting doors, roofs, walls and floors.
1. Axe- flathead, pick-head, pry, and multipurpose axes.
2. Bolt cutters- do not cut case hardened locks
3. Circular Saw- K12
Blades- Carbide-tipped blades (wood), Aluminum Oxide (metal), Masonry Blades (concrete)
Lock tools/ specialty tools
K-tools- cut into lock cylinder
A-tool- is similar to the k tool except that it has the pry bar built into the cutting part of the tool.
J-tools- will fit between double doors that have panic bars.
Shove Knife- old tool used to open doors by slipping between the door and the frame to open latch
Duck Billed Lock Breakers
made of softer metal material to allow tool to create a better bite.
Locking pliers and chain
used to keep tension on door while lock is being broken or removed
Bam Bam tool
used to pull out lock cylinders
Basic door construction
- Door (the entryway itself)
- Jamb (the frame)
- Hardware (the handles hinges, and other components.)
- Locking Mechanism
Wood doors
Solid core- (Front and back doors) constructed of solid wood core blocks covered by a face panel. Contain fire better and harder to force
Hollow core-(interior doors) lightweight, honey comb interior, which is covered by a face panel.
Metal Doors
either solid or hollow fire resistance
Glass Doors
steel frame, with tempered glass easy to to force but can be dangerous owing to the number of small broken pieces.
5 most common doors
- inward
- outward
- sliding
- revolving
- overhead
Inward opening doors
have a exterior frame with stop or rabbet that keeps the door from opening past the latch.
1. used beveled edge
Outward opening door
usually commercial occupancies, hidden hinges. designed for quick emergency exits.
- check hinges
- adz end of a prying tool
Windows
provide air flow and light to the inside of buildings, and emergency exits and entrance
1. Break the top left corner
The transparent part of a window?
the glazed part of the window