Don’t let your turnout gear pockets become little “junk drawers.” Your PPE coat and pants combination costs your fire department $1,500 or more, and as a new firefighter, you don’t want to explain to your fire chief how all those tools jammed into your pockets have damaged said pockets, right?

Or, in situations when you suddenly need to make a quick bail out from a second-floor window to escape a blaze, these items will be handy to have in one of your pockets:

Smith says the optimal charge for effectiveness and safety is 70 microcoulombs. The X26 cannot adjust its pulse for effectiveness if the subject is wearing thick clothing; the X3 can.

4. Self-rescue tools. These tools can assist in your escape when you find yourself trapped by fallen wires or building components. Since the late 1970s, builders of single- and multi-family residential dwellings have used less cut lumber and lighter weight – and cheaper – fabricated building materials. Together with open floor plan designs, these residential dwellings have a greater potential for fires to spread through void spaces in walls, ceilings and floors, resulting in earlier failure of those structural components. You need the ability to “cut or hack” your way to safety through HVAC ductwork and sheetrock walls using tools like:

But despite the demand, TASER International didn't want to just build a multi-shot version of the X26. It wanted to build the next-generation TASER with features that weren't even possible when the X26 was in development and keep it compact enough to fit the same spot on a duty belt as the X26.

"The chance of three successive misses doesn't drop in a linear fashion," TASER International CEO Rick Smith explains. "It drops exponentially. Three shots gives you a 99.2 percent success rate vs. 80 percent for one shot."

The problem: Many of those situations don’t happen when a firefighter can quickly get the required tool from the apparatus on location. Experienced firefighters, being resourceful individuals, often make clever use of the considerable number of pockets available on today’s PPE to carry an assortment of hand tools, rope and webbing to help them get the job done safely, effectively and efficiently.

H Warning Arc While Loaded-The X3 gives the user two ways to end a confrontation without firing a cartridge. An officer can paint a suspect with the weapon's dual laser system and back him down. Better yet, the X3's new cartridge design shows the electricity arcing across the front of the TASER while it is loaded and the safety is off. This is designed to warn the subject that he is about to get zapped, so he'd better comply.

So, there you have it. The five types of tools every new firefighter should have readily available. Some are inexpensive, while others might seem a bit pricey, especially for someone just starting out in the job. Start early, do your research and make a plan for getting at least one useful tool from each category.

The three-shot TASER pistol marketed as the X3 has been one of the company's most secret projects. It's also been a product that cops have been requesting for years.

In addition to its ability to adjust its charge from pulse to pulse, the X3 also keeps records of each pulse. "We can go back and show exactly how much energy went into the subject," Smith says.

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H Three Shots-Studies have show that about 20 percent of TASER shots fired by police miss. So one of the first benefits of the multi-shot TASER will be greater success in engaging subjects.

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1. Environmental monitoring devices. It’s important to have a healthy respect for electricity and toxic gases. Since you can’t see electricity, you must have a non-contact voltage detector – a tool that enables you to evaluate the threat posed by electrical wires.

The X3 actually records three types of data. It keeps an event log that shows when the weapon was activated (safety off), if it was arced, and if it was fired. It keeps the aforementioned pulse log. And it keeps an engineering log that records system performance parameters and reveals malfunctions and maintenance problems.

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2. Forcible-entry tools. These are hand tools needed to force entry through doors and windows in residential occupancies (e.g., single- and multi-family dwellings). You’ll also need them to gain entry to malfunctioning machinery and components (e.g., removing panels and disassembling housings) that are typically the cause of those “smell of smoke” calls to which you frequently respond. Some examples include:

There are thousands of toxic gases out there, but the most common one you’ll encounter is carbon monoxide (CO), which is a byproduct of burning of fossil fuels (e.g., wood, coal, petroleum products) and can be present for a number of reasons: damaged or improperly installed chimney flues; improperly vented emergency generators; propane or other natural gas stoves or heating equipment that are not working properly; or vehicles left running in a garage with CO entering the living space.

3. Tools to access to vehicle crash victims. The typical fire department responds to more motor vehicle crashes than they do structure fires in a year. A critical first step is quickly gaining access to occupants to assess and treat their injuries, and these four tools can make your efforts safer, more effective and more efficient:

A good bunker gear pocket protector can keep that conversation from happening and keep your tools more organized and accessible.

Personal gas monitors like MSA’s ALTAIR Single-Gas Detector, which are designed to be carried by the individual firefighter, are a key safety tool for any response.

You may not have heard of that last one yet. The three-shot TASER pistol marketed as the X3 has been one of the company's most secret projects. It's also been a product that cops have been requesting for years.

Many of us have a “junk drawer” in our house, typically a kitchen drawer that essentially serves as a final resting place for anything that didn’t have a specific storage spot. In the junk drawer you might find anything from dead batteries to remote controls for appliances not in the home anymore, as well as untold numbers of mismatched nuts, bolts and nails of all sizes.

The adage “Jack of all trades, master of none” has never been more applicable to today’s firefighters. Every day, firefighters are confronted with various emergency scenarios where the combination of a sharp mind and the right tool means the difference between success and failure.

Another benefit of the X3 TASER is that officers can now engage up to three subjects without reloading. The cartridges can be fired in order, or the user can choose which cartridge to trigger out of the three. This gives the user the ability to load the X3 with both short-range and long-range cartridges and choose the cartridge type needed for each confrontation.

All of this data can be uploaded to TASER International's new Evidence.com so that supervisors and project managers can analyze TASER use and discover any problems. This feature of Evidence.com is free to agencies that purchase the X3.

Since the debut of the M26 in 2001 and subsequent release of the X26 in 2003, the TASER has become as common a sight on the belts of American law enforcement officers as a handgun.

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What tools to carry in your turnout gear’s pockets is one of the most talked about subjects in fire service circles. And for the new firefighter, it’s even more important to get it right. So, start making a shopping list.

H Vastly Improved Intelligence and Safety Features-It would not be an exaggeration to say that the X3 is the smartest TASER ever. It features a Pulse Calibration System that measures the voltage and the charge of each pulse (like the X26, the X3 pulses 19 times per second) when the TASER is fired.

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5. Utility tools. In the same way a clutch utility baseball player can do many things to help their ballclub win, these types of tools can be used for several types of firefighting tasks:

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Editor's Note: Watch a TASER video with interviews of company employees describing their experience be being hit with the X3.

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