Firefighter Tools: Making Entry with Through-The-Lock Pliers

Through-the-lock pliers are not a new tool to the fire service. Thousands of firefighters across the country carry these pliers in their bunker gear every day. Through-the-lock pliers are created by making simple modifications to a pair of slip-joint pliers. Several variations of these pliers are available commercially to be modified by the user. Slip-joint pliers that have already been modified into through-the-lock pliers can also be commercially purchased. Modifying a pair of slip-joint pliers into through-the-lock pliers does not require significant mechanical aptitude and can be completed in less than an hour in the firehouse workshop.

[brendanflynn]

Brothers, it just another tool in your tool box. Knowledge is power.

[Dadofthepast]

Basic mortis lock, use the k tool.
I mean seriously round tires were already discovered.

[Dadofthepast]

Not to mention the lock tool key is bent at a 90 for a reason. To depress the spring to throw from 5-7 or 7-5. That’s a training door and you can’t throw it from the big hole in real life.

[tdtd]

Break the window and reach in. Set of “irons”

[spyderjd]

One swing with a sledgehammer lock is broken, and the door open just ask a door breacher for a SWAT team

[fdnydan]

These instructors are getting more & more useless.