What does everyone carry for tools in their bunker pants pockets

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Permalink Reply by Robert Owens on March 14, 2008 at 10:35pm

Coat: 15 feet 1 inch weebing with carabineer, safety glasses, electrical tape, door chocks, pen, pad of paper,2 pairs of work gloves.

R Pants Pocket: cable cutters, gerber tool, serated blade knife, channel lock pliers modified with key tool ends, multiple head screw driver.

L Pants Pocket: 20 feet 1 inch weebing w/ carabineer, trauma sheers.

SWAT (Special Wrenches and Tools) Bag: Towel,WD40, Spare Hood,Spare Firefighting Gloves,Pair of Socks, Socket Set, adjustable wrench, wire brush, 40 feet of rope in a bag, and meausring wheel. (This bag stays in the rig and I only use it when needed)

Also carry 50 foot bag of rope w/ carabineer, and Vulcan Box Light.

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Permalink Reply by Brad on May 27, 2008 at 11:25pm

Weebing? Ha Ha.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Wells on July 28, 2008 at 3:15am

You've probably seen the Lionel tool and the new Channel-lock tool, but I'm interested in how you modified your channel locks. Any chance of getting a look, or better yet, have you put out a patent, painted it red, and put them up for sale.

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Permalink Reply by Scotty Mack on March 23, 2009 at 8:59am

go to vententersearch.com under what's in your pockets? They show you how to convert the ends of your channel locks to through the lock tools

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Permalink Reply by FF.Michael Ellis on March 15, 2008 at 12:55am

I carry A seat belt cutter on my helmet

A pelican flashlight is attached on the top left side of my coat
my radio is in the radio pokcet on my top right side coat
and a window punch in my lower right coat poket
I also carry a spanner in my left coat pocket

on my suspenders I carry all my med gear (ie scissors, med gloves, pen light and the such)

In my Left bunker pants pocket I carry my SCBA mask
And in my Right bunker pants pocket I carry My Firefighting & extracation Gloves and my nomex

That is all I diddent realise I carried so much stuff until I started wrighting it all down

STAY SAFE
FF.Michael Ellis

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Permalink Reply by Riley Ross on March 15, 2008 at 6:08am

all i really carry is a pair of wire cutters a nilon strap some spanner wrenches and both my structural gloves and extrication gloves

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Permalink Reply by ILDisasterEMT on March 15, 2008 at 6:10am

Well, I am still working it out, as an ultra-newb, but here is the "load" I am developing so far:

Loop on left upper side of coat: nomex hood

Radio Pocket: will eventually be my radio. Right now it holds my stocking cap and eye glasses in a hard case when they are not on my face

Left coat pocket: left glove and small nylon pack containing seat belt cutter, center punch, trauma/bandage shears, kelly clamp, nitrile gloves, a few bandages, bandaides, CPR mouth shields, Isreali pressure bandage, CAT military tourniquet

Right coat pocket: Right glove, Nebo halogen flashlight with laser pointer (cuts nicely through smoke), serrated edge 4" lock blade knife, pedialyte bottle that I emptied and fill with water. When not working inside where it would melt, it fits perfectly into the pocket and acts as a good canteen.

Havent worked out where yet, but: 20 feet of webbing for hose strap, carabiner (also hook one on my pants to hold helmet when its not on my head. As soon as I can afford one: A little Ed on the hook where my hood currently is. (We're not dealing with burns yet that require SCBA so the hood is more to keep out the cold during outdoor training----like today where we are going to be throwing a lot of water).

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Permalink Reply by Chris on June 7, 2008 at 5:59am

I was just gonna say all that med. supplies in your coat pocket if you go in a hot fire will melt. I found out the hard way when i was a rookie.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Stoltz on March 15, 2008 at 7:05am

You will want to check out the OTHER discussion on this subject:

http://www.firefighternation.com/forum/topic/show?id=889755%3ATopic...

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Permalink Reply by Dennis on March 15, 2008 at 7:47am

sounds good might add a bottle of water in there and also get the dept to add bottled water to ur trucks 1 case per truck is good
helps when u need a drink badly

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Permalink Reply by Paul Montpetit on May 2, 2008 at 2:10pm

Dennis...I just went to a seminar on firefighter rehab....Now they are preaching that a sports drink is better than plain water...sort of makes sense....need replacement of electrolytes as well as the fluids...and DO NOT ice it....will cause nausea and possible vomitting....Paul

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on July 19, 2008 at 9:21am

Paul, You are correct that a lot of rehab protocols call for sports drinks instead of water

However, I seriously question drinking a sports drink prior to water rehydration for firefighter rehab. You're dumping a hypertonic solution into the GI tract. That will pull fluid from the cardiovascular system to dilute the sugar and electrolytes in the sports drink, which will temporarily put the firefighter at even greater risk for heat stress-related heart attacks.

The best rehab protocols call for initial rehydration with water, followed by sports drinks. That way you add volume to both the GI tract and the circulating volume prior to drinking solutes, and you avoid the temporary loss of the extra circulating volume.

Bottled sports drinks are better than dumping the Gatorade powder into a big cooler. That can cause excessively high concentrations of solute in the drink. Excessively high concentrations of solutes are more prone to be the cause of nausea/vomiting than is the ice.
Bottled sports drinks give you a known concentration of solutes.

There's nothing wrong with ice water for rehab - it helps with core cooling as well as rehydration. Just don't ice it excssively. We use both ice water from insulated coolers and iced bottled water and Gatorade and Powerade for our rehab, and we've never had a problem with rehab-induced puking.

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