Whats Carried In Your Pockets?

[Guest]

EVERYONE should carry a pair of linesman's pliers in their right pocket. This tool will be VERY valuable if you get jammed up. You can cut pretty much anything that entangles you like cable tv wire, the wire form central a/c duct work, wire used to hold up drop ceiling grids. A Leatherman tool may have a wire cutter in it, but to deploy it in an emergency situation is a little difficult, and it may not cut everyhting a real pair of linesman's pliers will cut. After that as far as tools go, it should be based on what you do and what you find yourself using 99.9% of the time. I carry a pair of channel lock pliers (with the handle's modified for through the lock forcible entry), multi-head screw driver, flat bladed screw driver (for forcing cheap imitation American series pad locks), elevator drop key, shove knife, square key tool, large phillips screw driver 25' of utility rope (with snap clips on both ends)to take windows with halligan tool, metal chocks that go over the hinges, wood chocks, in addition to my linesman's pliers. All the tools except my channel lock and linesman's pliers are kept in a small leather tool pouch I bought at Sears in my left pocket with my chocks. I keep both sets of pliers and my utility rope in my right pocket (reason for this...when you become entangled your left hand goes to your left shoulder strap when wearing a Scott 4.5 air pack because the left strap contains the low pressure hose that leads to the regulator). I used to carry a 20' piece of webbing daisy chained in this pocket too, but I have packed that behind the left knee pad of my pants, where I leave a tail sticking out of the top so I can easily remove it. This seems to work well, and doesn't get caught up at all on anything when crawling around doing a search.

[Guest car2267]

Helmet- 1 chock

left coat pocket- safety glasses and ff gloves

right coat pocket- bailout rope, cable cutters and combination screwdriver

on my vulcan light i have a sheath that holds my handi cutters

no pockets on my bunker pants

[xfirefighter484x 234]

This was asked once in the past.  I can't find the old subject, but I know that my list has become smaller, either because it was getting to be too much or I just lost things.

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[Guest]

Thank god for IzzyEng4, the only one here who does what i do. I put my left glove in my left pocket, and my right glove in my right pocket, very quick, less fumbling with your gloves when you need those prescious seconds

[Oswegowind 17]

RUBBER GLOVES...PROTECT YOURSELF!!!!!...THAT WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE AND TAKES UP VERY LITTLE SPACE!

[PFD165 1]

Helmet - Light and 1 Chock

Coat pocket - Hood

Coat tool holder - pliers/wire cutters

Pants - Webbing 25', extrication gloves, seatbelt cutter, shove knife

[efd184 59]

Helmet-Flashlight,(2)chocks

Jacket Pockets-wrapped tight in velcro i have a sheetrock knife(leatherman is useless with gloves), plies,wire cutters, philips and flat screw drivers,sharpie marker,electrical tester and my favorite a glow stick (you never know when you may need a light). The other pocket has black tape and wire nuts and a spare set of rubber gloves

pants pockets- 25' 1" webbing and 45' life rope

[Guest]

Ah, I like the glow stick, excellent idea.

[Porsha911gt3 8]

I asked this about a year ago, Here is the Link

http://emtbravo.net/index.php?showtopic=9392&hl=

It's a good idea that you asked it again because there are alot more people now, which creates a lot more input.

Brian