Firefighter squeezing through ladder rungs - GIF

[desbromilow]

when I was VFRS one of the tests we had to do was pass from one side of the fire truck to the other (underneath) and still leave the cylinder on our back. Our District Officer was adamant we could not take the BA set off our back, so all of our challenges had to be done fully donned. - came in handy a few years later when I was under a camry with a leaking LPG tank line, fully donned, and shutting off the gas valve at the tank with a 4" and 6" adjustable wrench I always carried in my turnout jacket. There was 2 of us under that car doing that job with the rest of crew standing up outside ready to pull us out by our feet if anything happened.