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This tool is most commonly used to pull ceilings during overhaul.
What is a pike pole?
This tool is used to smother grass fires without applying water.
What is a flapper?
This hydraulic tool spreads metal apart during vehicle extrication.
What is a spreader?
This tool helps firefighters locate victims in heavy smoke.
What is a TIC (thermal imaging camera)?
This pair of tools is known as “the irons.”
What is the Halligan and the flat-head axe?
This combination tool looks like a big garden rake and is used to scrape fireline.
What is a McLeod?
These blocks are used to stabilize vehicles before cutting.
What is cribbing?
This tool tightens or loosens hose couplings.
What is a spanner wrench?
This small but mighty item keeps doors from slamming shut on firefighters while they work.
What is a door chock?
This wildland tool has an axe blade on one side and a hoe blade on the other.
What is a Pulaski?
This small tool breaks tempered glass with a single push.
What is a glass punch?
This tool displays gas readings in parts per million and is used to detect atmospheres unsafe for entry even when there is no visible smoke.
What is a gas meter or multi-gas detector?
This long-handled tool has multiple prying and pulling ends and is popular with truck companies for interior overhaul.
What is a New York hook?
This tool is a backpack-mounted pressurized water system designed for spot-fire suppression in areas engines cannot access.
What is an Indian pump (backpack pump)?
This hydraulic tool cuts through thick vehicle metal like A- and B-posts.
What is the hydraulic cutter?
This large fireground tool can deliver high-volume water from a fixed position on the apparatus and is often used for defensive operations when it’s too dangerous for crews to operate interior lines.
What is a deck gun?
When forcing an inward-swinging residential door, this part of the Halligan is inserted between the door and jamb.
What is the adze?
When performing mobile attack from a Type 6 engine, your handline nozzle pressure should be kept within this range to balance stream reach, nozzle reaction, and water conservation.
What is 50–75 psi?
These lifting tools are rated in tons, require cribbing with every lift, and should never be stacked more than two high.
What are high-pressure rescue airbags?
This portable fire suppression tool is carried on interior search teams because it can knock down small fires, cool superheated gases, and buy victims and firefighters valuable time during rescue.
What is a water can?