FIRE DEPARTMENT
EVENT 5
Forcible Entry
Purpose of Evaluation: This event is designed to simulate the critical tasks of using force to open a locked door or breach a wall. It measures the candidate’s upper body muscular strength and endurance, lower body muscular strength and endurance, balance, grip strength and endurance, and anaerobic endurance.
Event: The candidate will use an axe and strike the target area 30 times. The candidate must stand but may crouch as low as possible without kneeling during this exercise. Each strike must include the head of the axe being raised over the candidate’s helmet. Face shield must be down during this exercise. The candidate must carefully place the axe on the ground at the conclusion of the event.
Failures: If the candidate does not maintain control of the axe, where it is released from both hands, their test time will be concluded and the candidate will fail the test.
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