At Fort Washington we are always looking for new training opportunities that can help keep our firefighters prepared for anything they may face. Sometimes we look outside the fire service for things that we can apply to our trade. This class came about after a conversation about passive entry with John Buttrick from Coastal Fire Training. He told me about a guy on Youtube Deviant Ollam. Deviant is known as a lock picker but his full time job is spent as a Physical Penetration Tester. This job involves breaking into buildings (contracted by the property owner) to test the security and report back with ways to improve it. When we saw the methods / tools he used we instantly knew he could be a huge benefit to the fire service. After contacting Dev he was very receptive to creating a presentation for first responders. After some discussion we scheduled a class for February 24, 2020 at the Upper Dublin High School in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.

This presentation was titled “Exigent Entry” and we had over 100 people in attendance. A lot of eyes were opened during the presentation and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it. Since there was interest in the classroom presentation Dev created a special two day class just for first responders at a deeply discounted price. The link to their training website is below.

https://redteamalliance.com/RTCG.html

https://www.fortwashingtonfc.org/
https://www.facebook.com/FWFC88/

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