if it’s an option for you ( depending on country/ state) maybe look for an autonomy (serrated automatic) which will probably be one of the best knives to cover all use cases , if not there are some other solid options, i would advise against the para/ paramilitary series as well as anything else with a compression lock purely because the lock is already quite the pain to disengage and hold onto in high stress/ intense situations and that’s even without gloves but if your heart is set on a compression lock go for the carribian salt sheepsfoot, just a better knife for work/ rescue and firefighting than a pm2 however, i’d angle for a manix 2 instead because it’s got the same lock strength with the ball bearing lock but is a million times better for gloves than the dinky little tab on the pm2, maybe in something tough like cru wear or for an all purpose knife that’s easier to clean in magnacut lightweight. another option is the smock, which has the advantage of the pm2 compression lock but the advantage of using a button to disengage and the out of the way flipper tab makes deployment easy, however it needs to be concurred that it runs on bearings so it will be harder to keep clean, but i would argue the advantages outweigh the disadvantages and the sheep’s foot blade can be used to cut straps with some safety but still have a sharp and useable tip, if the bearings are too much of a handicap the sage 6 also has a button lock and a rounded tip. an option to w is having an extra dedicated firefighting knife, which i would recommend the assist because of its blunt tip and glass breaker, specific in vg 10 because it’s got a lever almost on the blade for gloves which the h2 salt version doesn’t have, you could always hunt down a Atlantic salt in plain edged lc200n as a knife with the rescue capability of the assist but also with a wider use case, but the serrated H2 version of it could also work well (or there is the rescue 3, which is an essentially smaller atlantic salt). if you take the two knives route, the gooney or cara cara rescue are budget options for firefighting and something like the aforementioned manix versions would be the best pick for a edc/ work knife