Interesting use of the handcuff knot, I like it. Nicely done.

Thx from Springfield IL. Great video, going to use this info for our training next week

Interesting drill and a little more addition of tools to the tool box. The issue is looking at where and when this type of drill is realistic. Most of these drills have little basis in reality to what is actually occurring on the foreground. First, why did the firefighter fall through the floor? In the vast majority of cases it is because the floor has given way as a result of fire beneath the floor. When the floor collapses, three things typically happen. First, a blow torch comes through the floor from the fire below. Making the hole the firefighter fell through uninhabitable for a rescuer. Second, the hole is often not as large as what it was to allow the firefighter through. Lightweight flooring actually expands as the softened OSB allows the weight to pass through and flexes back. This weakened floor will most likely have no ability to support a group of heavy firefighters to operate around and in proximity the hole ( that is likely getting weaker from the fire). Third, in the overwhelming majority of cases presented the firefighter is not incapacitated by the 9-10 foot fall. The atmosphere from the fire will force them to find refuge elsewhere in the basement. The complicated rope based rescue techniques require a few things to be successful, the rope must be readily available. The methodology employed must be able to be done in low to no visibility with fire gloves on. Nylon rope requires very low temperatures to be viable. The most likely technique to manage a real life fall through is aggressive fire attack to the basement by whatever openings are available, exterior windows, tenable stairs, high volume piercing nozzles (multiple at flow rates above 150), and implementation of res he through the stairs or ladders through openings you create into protected voids. Window conversions through the subfloor are very effective. But all manpower intensive. Just use common sense to the drills we create and commit our time to train to. Stay safe.