I was in a wreck of April of this year nearly lost my life as I watch how educated and how meticulous you guys have to be and memorize all this I teared up because you truly are a blessing . Thank you for serving I mean that too all firefighters.

Thank you showing a different method of popping the hood I will definitely use this method to gain access to the battery !

Nice job Aurora! Not a fan of the rip or blitz method that has been taught forever. Typically if we are doing a side removal it's from a T-bone with significant intrusion. With that kind of compromise the rip method will be a 50/50 shot. Removing door-door-bpost gives you a high degree of success regardless of damage. I do teach cutting higher up on lower b-post to get above the seatbelt retentioner. This also leaves you a nice base for the RAM if you also need to do a dash roll.

Thanks guys for your good video which is really informative

Imagine the car you love stops working so you sell it and see it in an auto extrication video

Great video

Thank you for these videos. I’d love to be a firefighter/hotshot one day 🙏🏻❤️

Great video! Regarding using the spreader to access the hood, are the trucks/cars that are sometimes equipped with strut openers a risk when doing that method? I suppose you don't know what's under the hood until it comes off, but any tips on mitigating that hazard?

Great video and yes it looked really clean 👊🏾

the music had me jumping for the volume to turn it down but nice vid

Always Good stuff coming from AFD although I'll offer a humble observation, cutting battery cables needs to be seriously evaluated on a case by case basis. As we have been told in the last couple Auto X classes I participated in, Airbags in modern vehicles have capacitors that can hold a charge for quite a while ( I want to say up to an hour?) after main power has been disrupted meaning that the airbags can still deploy even after the battery cables have been disconnected or cut. Unless you have serious & legitimate concerns about the 12 volt system being a source of ignition or causing other problems I would probably skip de-energizing the vehicle.

a life saver

Good

Isn't it a little unsafe to check for down power lines AFTER you touched the vehicle and went almost half inside to get the keys out

Firefighters. Ray Collins

can't wait to try this on my neighbours car

There is no reason to peal and peek the b post

You are creating a false sense of fear around the airbags. An air bag will not deploy while a vehicle is not in motion unless you short the system. Don’t wanna short the system? Don’t push against the control module. Don’t push against any cables that shouldn’t be pushed against. And good luck maneuvering around a driver to do the interior rescuer stuff through the driver side window as you show. Poorly made video with horrible techniques being shown.