FDNY Forcible Entry Bible

I haven't had a chance to look it over yet, but my brother (he's a truckie too)forwarded this link to me over the last week which looks as if it should have some serious value to you all out there: the FDNY Forcible Entry Guidebook.

It's a large file, or I'd just post it. So, let's look it over and discuss...

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Permalink Reply by Mick Mayers on December 29, 2007 at 1:47pm

Scratch that- this is a MUST READ. Just the first chapter on the history of FDNY forcible entry stuff is outstanding in itself. The rest of the information is great and should be used for training personnel, but I loved some of the history, which coming from the sources themselves is excellent.

Permalink Reply by Dan Horton on January 3, 2008 at 10:44pm

Mick, I've been reading this on and off for the past few days as I've been a tad busy, but so far this article is UNREAL. Its not only good to know what tools and techniques are used, but its also great to know the history behind them. I'm going to be starting the Instructor 1 class in a week or two and I'm hoping I'll be able to use this as the class I have to teach for practicals. A big thanks to you and your brother for providing this article to the Truckie Nation!

Permalink Reply by Mick Mayers on January 3, 2008 at 11:27pm

Yeah, and a special thanks to Matt Tobia from Anne Arundel Co. Fire for forwarding it to us (turns out that's where my bro got it from). This is good stuff.

Permalink Reply by Drew Lyman on February 15, 2008 at 6:13pm

Thanks. Great find! I'm emailing it to our training battalion. Sure this will make it's way to all our station's reference shelves shortly.

Permalink Reply by Mick Mayers on February 17, 2008 at 8:07am

Glad you enjoyed it. I certainly did as well as some of the other stuff from this thread. Let's keep it rolling- anyone else got good stuff to share?

Permalink Reply by Cory on October 28, 2008 at 8:16pm

I can't wait to dig into this. Just skimmed threw and it looks like a great tool..
Stay safe!

Permalink Reply by Georgios Savvidis on January 16, 2009 at 4:50am

Hi there people!

It seems that the "FDNY Forcible Entry Guidebook" is not anymore available for downloading.
Would please someone be kind enough to share a downloadlink for the guidebook?

Thank you very much in advance!

Permalink Reply by Mick Mayers on January 18, 2009 at 7:48am

Let me see what I can do- it's a decent sized file, so just sending it via e-mail to you wouldn't work well.

Permalink Reply by Mick Mayers on January 18, 2009 at 7:50am

I just checked out Georgios' report that this link was bad and it is. If anyone knows of a new and improved link to the FDNY Forcible Entry Guidebook, please share it with the truckie brothers here. I'll post this to the main feed as well.

Permalink Reply by Georgios Savvidis on January 18, 2009 at 3:58pm

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I just came home and read your post! The file is secure in my laptop already.
I will also make sure it is going to be available in the future, by uploading
in a download server.

Cheers! :)

Permalink Reply by Mick Mayers on January 18, 2009 at 4:05pm

Good stuff. I was just replied to Jim's post on the VES thread and was getting ready to talk about it over here and saw he had already done it. Check out that other link too- the Long Beach Fire Training site.

Permalink Reply by Eugene Rothman on January 18, 2009 at 9:33pm