Halligan Tool - Used for breaking windows, doors and whatever else gets in the way

 

Kelly Tool - What firefighter Kelly uses to break windows, doors and whatever else gets in the way

 

Water Hammer - Used to drive in water nails

 

Drafting - Following another fire engine really closely on the way to a fire

 

Backdraft - Drafting on the way back to the station

 

Truck Company - Where they make trucks

 

Engine Company – Same as above except they make engines

 

Flashover - Too many lights on the pumper

 

Master Stream - The Mississippi

 

Exposures - Usually Indecent

 

Rollover - What you do in the ashes to make your new turnouts look old

 

Becket bend – The turn onto Becket Rd.

 

Dutchman – The guy from Holland

 

High Expansion Foam – What you get when you open a warm beer

 

We Hope this list has been some help

Firefighter Terminology