Breaching A Wall

Entering a burning structure filled with smoke and high amounts of heat can be a very disorienting job. Sometimes even the most highly trained firefighter can become disoriented and lost and unable to find their way out. Exit doors and windows can be completely out of site due to thick black smoke. With the construction of most home interior walls being made of sheet rock, firefighters can easily breach through walls allowing them access to other rooms of the structure where conditions may not be as severe.

The Egress Hole

Being more of a personal survival tool, a well trained rescuer can also utilize this technique in RIT operations to quickly remove injured and trapped firefighters to more desirable conditions. Due to close proximity of wall studs underneath the sheet rock, firefighters sometime have to profile themselves by shifting their SCBA packs to one side in order to fit in between the wall studs to access the hole they have made.