Firefighter Door Wedge

Making a door stop out of a scrap bit of mahogany i found in a skip.

Firefighter door wedge.

They are cheap easy to make at the fire house and versatile. Firefighter invents door wedge marker. The firefighter developed tool will assist firefighters during interior search and rescue operations. 8 wedge forcible entry tool.

The wooden door wedge or chock as it is commonly labeled is one of the simplest and most effective tools we as firefighters can carry. Door chocks wedges. Firefighter door wedge door chock warthog hinge hook durable handy versatile keeps almost any door open won t kick out pack of 3 3 5 out of 5 stars 5 36 95 36. With the 8 wedge firefighters and first responders gain an edge in the first crucial moments of a fire.

Because the incident commander ic will send units to the floor above for searches and exposure protection that stairwell door needs to be wedged and if there was a fire door in. Then the door to the fire room takes a fourth wedge. Developed both in the classroom and on the fire ground the aluminum 8 wedge has evolved into a crucial life saving piece of gear. The rescue wedge is a multi purpose tool adopted in the fire service making a firefighter s job more efficient.

Making a door stop out of a scrap bit of mahogany i found in a skip. It works as a spanner wrench a simple door chock a bail out anchor point a fulcrum a gap set force assist and a wedge.