tools used by firefighters for soft entry of doors

AKA "respectful entry", AKA "door bypass", AKA "swipe tool", AKA "loid tool", AKA "through the lock" (usually meaning non-destructive)

training videos

YouTube channels:

• @Into The Smoke
• @Job Town Tools
• @Coastal Fire Training, LLC
  • several different shove knifes
• @Fire Engineering
  • TODO: there's lots more specific videos here, and good stuff too [1] [2] [3]
• Deviant Ollam
  • 2020/02/24 — "Exigent Entry" — 1:54:00
  • 2017/10/27 — "Tactics of Physical Pen Testers" — 44:00

YouTube videos:

• 11 minute training video
• [1]
• shove knives [1] [2] [3]
• 10+ different tools
• 7 different tools
• Tri-Blade training video
• chain latches and other security locks that are sometimes found in hotel room doors
  • Ways to try to protect your hotel room better: A door-stop alarm [1] [2], things that affixes inside the strikeplate hole [1] [2]

CovertCompanion / LockPickingLawyer:

• [shop]   bypass tools
  • Covert Companion, a set of most of the SSF tools [à la carte]
    • Some serious criticisms of the Covert Companion (along with suggested alternatives) [Covert Arbiter set]   [Covert Genesis set]   [Sparrows Hall Pass]   [Sparrows Tuxedo set]   [Covert Slim Pickings]   [Jimmy Longs]
  • Credit Card Latch Slipper
  • Super Mica Shims
• #978 — movie film, bypassing a door from the top
• #979 — under-the-door tool [store]
• #980 — traveler hook, bypassing a door from the latch side [store]   [store]   [store]   [store]
• #981 — hinge spring [store]
• #1312 — the J-tool [store]
  • also, the air wedge starting at 1:30 [store]
• #1409 — door hook, used for glass storefront doors [store]
• #1455 — the same door hook as above
  • also, the pocket pry bar starting at 1:20 [store]
• #1540 — Adams Rite Wire, used for some glass storefront doors [store]   [store]

terminology

If there are videos here, they're more "what is this tool?" instead of "training information on how to use this tool".

• shove knife
  • Firepik
  • Firepik Pro
  • Tri-Blade
  • SERAT: the Seattle Rapid Access Tool [2]

Various security features:

• dead latch (and bypassing it with a wedge)
• mortise locks vs spring latches, and ANSI Grades 1, 2, and 3

• guard plate
• (more)