I happened upon this website yesterday, and at a minimum, it's a fun look at what firefighters are carrying and their thought process. Be sure to take a few minutes and look at the rest of the site.



What's in your Pockets

Always an interesting question... Ask any Firefighter what's in the pockets of their gear, and why. Everyone has different ideas, and there is typically an interesting explanation.

http://www.vententersearch.com/pockets.htm

thanks!

a lot of clever ideas and if nothing else it shows you what a nasty bit of work firefighting is--which is why it's call "fighting" i guess and just not "putting fires out"

This one's my favorite:

"A rubber door strap, it is a simple piece of inner tube tire with two slots in it to slip over each side of a door handle. It prevents self closing doors from latching behind you."

Elegant.

I checked out the rest of that site, and it made me respect firefighters all the more. The pictures of structures that are "Not hat they appear to be from the outside", and other hazards was wild.

Talk about walking into the unknown.

This is brilliant!
Posted April 02nd, 2009 | Category: Random
http://www.vententersearch.com/?p=473

It's a great site!, I've been checking it out regularly for over a year now. I've been a volunteer for almost 20 years now and I can't tell you how much info is given on VES. Read it for a while and some of the names get very familiar. Some have pretty strong personalities but that is usually a good thing.

VES is a great site, and it truly is a lost art of the fire service. I found the site a year or so ago and it is now one of my 4 "home pages".

A lot of the idea's in the "Whats in Your Pockets" section are tricks of the trade that have been passed down from firefighter to firefighter for years. VES has become a cool collection of tricks of the trade (that not everyone agrees on, as you can see if you read the comments ;))

Very interesting...to see what the pro's carry...

Loved the photos.

But I confess ignorance on the "Shove Knife and Elevator Key."

What are these for, and how do they work?