masters of the obvious.

Don't ignore the obvious. The reason your out during the day and making yourself aware of what you may be dealing with later, while half asleep and ice cold at 3am is pictured here. You see "x" amount of locks. Walking up with your tools, you think there's allot of fun to be had cutting locks or guide rails to the roll up gates in your way. The efficient fire company knows what to not waste time on. How are these locks holding it down? Take a closer look, it behooves you. We find more and more, and surely in other rustbelt cities, landlords are tired of opening ten locks to pop in and out of their buildings for 5 minutes. If it appears secure to would be thieves, and the owner can get in by unlocking less, he thinks he has the quint-essential win/win on his hands. For our people, its all about speed and efficiency. Some times the goat gets you they say but why get gotten for no reason, busting our asses unnecessarily. Take a good look at whats in your way and remember that things are not always as they seem... Another forcible entry rule can be applied here too, use the path the occupants use. That particular door may have just one cut as opposed to two or three. Why your working at opening-up in the first place obviously dictates your entry priorities. Are these locks pinning the gate are aren't they. Do not be bamboozled, the difference is clear. looking behind the padlocks built into the guides, do you see a pin stopping the gate from rolling up? If all these locks are actually locking, is it faster to attack the gate itself? Perhaps. Location, Nature & Extent of fire will help you decide, and thats where another rule comes into play slightly, maintaining the integrity of the door. In some cases its more likely a favor for the property owner than anything else. Some of these locks are not even locked onto a pin holder in the padlocks shroud, which can at least help the funk faking appearance. Other locks are just sitting in place with the shackle not on or around anything of substance. While we couldn't determine what was actually holding those in place, it was very clear that they were just for show and doing absolutely nothing. We were able to roll a gates curtain up that had four "locks" on the guides, before rust and lack of maintenance stopped its upward progression. If we wanted in for real and were jamming with adrenaline, that gate was going right up with no cutting. The door behind it yet to be dealt with, but were through the first stage of this exercise with little physical expenditure. A little try before you pry, no? Looking behind the guide where the padlock is housed, some of the curtains had the cut out for pin placement but the alignment was off. Another sign of time and little maintenance. Even padlocks holding pins in place had the coupling slot cut into the curtain off a bit north or south. If the pin is off to the side of the curtain, will it still go up? Try and find out. In nicer, viable areas perhaps this is a deterrent backed up by an electrical locking mecha-nism but on these blocks, in these towns, surely thats not the case. Post intention is for size up and efficient work expenditure, not techniques on cutting padlocks or roll-up steel gates.