From what I've seen in my area...the maglocks are usually at the top of the door with some sort of sensor on the interior. They also have some type of rim or cylinder lock at the bottom. If you can defeat the cylinder at the bottom....you can actually use the style of the door for leverage and pry the door away from the mag. If that doesn't work, then you can gap the door enough at the top, and use a carpenter square or some other tool, to breach the sensor and release the lock. If you carry a roll of nails, once the lock is breached , place many nails across the lock and it will keep it defeated should the door chock fail and the door closes.

Sorry for the late reply on this post.
I have a number of these magnetic locks within my area. We have made a tool to defeat the magnetic lock systems. From my experience, there are two types of exiting systems for these locks. The first is the touch sensor push-bar. It looks like a panic hardware bar, but is sensitive to the touch of a person. In this system, we use a "J" shaped tool fashioned from stainless steel welding rod that is slipped between the double doors to manipulate the touch sensor. Sometimes it takes a bit of effort, but the rod activates the unlocking mechanism which deactivates the magnetic lock.
The second system uses a motion detector on the inside of the door. Similar to the automatic opening door in a grocery store. However, the difference is they simply unlock the magnetic lock. In this system, we have fashioned a flag out of an old salvage cover about 6"x8" which is taped to the other end of the "J" shaped stainless rod that I described above. We slide this tool into the crack between the double doors and wave it in front of the sensor. The sensor detects movement and unlocks the magnetic lock.

You are correct bro. Window bars need to be removed at private dwelling fires without out a doubt. Private dwelling fires can go bad quick and these bars will prevent the brothers from a fast egress. You have RIT teams, we have FAST trucks same thing. The FDNY has alot of resources as you know so the chief will call for an additional truck company just to deal with window bars at these fires. It is a good idea to use 2 members of your RIT team to start taking window bars, but god forbid you get put to work there is now no body to deal with the remaining bars. Try having the 2nd due LCC also work on the bars. This way if you get put to work the bars can still be worked on. I know everyone wants to be on the inside but the outside jobs are whats going to save our brothers. Thanks

Nick Morgan said:

Chris,
Sometimes the windows are barred too, but not always. Usually if the front or main entrance is barred, then additional front or rear entrances will be barred too. Our companies doing truck work are not as consistent about removing bars from windows during offensive firefighting as they should be; but I wanted to just share a common occurance with security bars on residential entry and exit doors. Ideally, the RIT company should remove any additional bars from windows and doors during the firefighting operation, but this doesn't happen near as often as it should. Thanks!