Breaching & BBQ - as Told by Santa Clara Police Dept. - Santa Clara, CA

Exactly as it sounds. Breaching & BBQ is our way of giving back to the first responder community in the form of training on our forcible entry infrastructure at our HQ in Rancho Cordova, CA. We host one Friday each month for government agencies to attend.

First responders arrive at 8:30am. Brief begins at 9:00am. Coffee served…

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The Conex Box Training Center - For Firefighters

Decentralizing your training. Create greater access to training for your department. Eliminate the logistical headaches of commutes and training days. Reduce the budget expenditure and city approval for multi-million dollar training centers. And acquire your training infrastructure quicker. If you’re fortunate to have your dream training center approved or even built, utilize ours as a stopgap or for specific evolutions. Whatever the case, our aim is to make acquisition, access, customization to your AO, and cost in time/money all EASIER and more streamlined for you.

Enter: The Forcible Entry, Inc. Conex Box Training Center.

It is its own training facility that is delivered to your doorstep. We offer 3 tiers of training centers to choose from for fire departments. All are customizable in both quantity of props, boxes, and location of props inside and outside of the box.

To see the following evolutions and the rest of this article:

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A Door Built to Go Boom - The Catalyst Force Entry Door - Tactical Breacher

The Forcible Entry, Inc. - Tactical Breacher is the upgraded version of the Catalyst Force Entry Door, which comes in addition to the standard mechanical breaching version. Acquiring the Tactical Breacher variation upgrades the CFED to train BOTH tiers of breaching: mechanical as the standard, primary evolution as well as explosive, shape charge, kinetic, and shotgun breaching. Having both lock mechanisms enables law enforcement, corrections, military, and federal agencies to utilize and train all entry strategies and tactics. 

Why is this important? 

Costs of course. Both in time, energy, and money. That’s why we built it. To save you all three while ensuring the realism, training customization, and logistical access all apply to making you better. 

So let’s start with financials….

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Halligan Tuning - the What, the Why, and Most Specifically - the DIY How-To

Tool preparation is vitally important to operational success regardless of your district, city or state. An optimized tool maximizes your skill set, creates consistent feedback, and becomes a reliable tool and not a negligible one. Hence, training consistently on different doors provides the feedback necessary to KNOW what the tool is doing and whether it needs to be tuned. One begets the other.

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The History of Forcible Entry, Inc. - Interview with Chuck Ferry

Presented by Studio 515 Productions. In this episode of Whiskey Wednesday, Chuck Ferry, fireman, entrepreneur, and creator of training products for first responders is interviewed about the creation and inception of Forcible Entry, Inc. Chuck shares his story of starting a successful business while serving his community as a fireman. He talks about the challenges of balancing his time and energy and offers insights on the importance of training for first responders. Tasting some great whiskeys and letting the conversation travel organically, we unpack and dig in to Chuck's inspiring journey of creating innovative training products that help first responders save lives.

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Always Handshake Your Fork

…….First a bit of thought regarding torque or leverage being placed onto the adz. If you imagine the adz is a wheel with and ale in the center of it. The center of the axle is attached to the center of the shaft perpendicularly. This would allow us to see a 2" tire on our 30" lever , assuming our hand is on the fork (furthest point) and not on the shaft of the tool. How much leverage am I creating? …….

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