Prepare and set your firefighters up for success when it counts. This class focuses on documented video-recorded vent-enter-search (VES) rescues at working fires. One incident is shared from the perspective of a captain making the rescue; the second incident is from the perspective of the battalion chief in charge. Both incidents were not successful because of luck; they were successful because of a culture of proactive training and preparation. Review each incident and the common preparation practices, the commonalities of both incidents that brought the same outcome, how to develop a proactive “search culture” at the company and battalion levels, victim survivability and specific tactics’ effectiveness, how water application created survivable space, and how Underwriters Laboratories studies correlate with these two rescues.