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Does your department use "RIT" or "RIC"
Does your department use "RIT" or "RIC", and if so do you supply them their own pumper and tools? It states that a RIC team is to have their own pumper and have be on a different water supply then the operation pumpers. There's no way we could do this on our departemnt but we could do it as a mutial aid. How does your department do it, or do you not use a RIC team?
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Permalink Reply by Tom Chmielowiec Jr. on
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we call in mutial aid that specializes in RIT, and they bring their own equipment on their own rig
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Permalink Reply by Just Plain Craig Moyer on
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IN New Castle County Del we don't have RIT on first reposne, but only on working alarms and the IC must say "Working Alarm". Smoke showing may or may not get you a RIT crew on the upgrade. If dispatch is recieving several calls then they will add a RIT team to the intial dispatch. While there is a delay since all the companies are so close it's only a matter of minutes.
It's up to each company as to what ype of apparatus to bring. My company uses a rescue.
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer King on
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We use RIT, they are supposed to stand by, masked-up with an extra handline off the primary pumper, charged and ready"just in case". It always seems to work well in training exercises, but we all know how often things go at an actual fire.Everyone working their butts off, and noone just standing by- I'd guess that probably 99% of the nations FD's are too understaffed to do it by the books.We ARE big on PAR systems tho- accountability is priority.
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Permalink Reply by Sarah Turner on
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You said "It states that a RIT team is to have their own pumper"
Who is "It"
We have RIT at every fire. Automatic aid with Charleston City provides us with plenty of man power and more apparatus than you can imagine. Our department is highly trained in RIT, and you won't find a fire without RIT here.
We have a stokes basket with a set of irons, a RIT airpack with three hook up options, a harness kind of like a reeve's sleeve, and search and rescue ropes that we connect to each other when we go in so as to not lose anyone further. We also have a rope that we connect to our way out so everyone knows where we are if we are in the building, and we can follow it out. We carry all this equip on the rescue and it goes in the front lawn of every fire with a four person RIT packed up and waiting.
Of course we run a PAR every twenty minutes and after any sort of event such as a collapse.
We learned our lesson in Charleston, and will not make the same mistakes.
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Permalink Reply by rick kassahn on
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hello yes all of are surounding departments use rit along with the 2 in 2 out rule
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Permalink Reply by Engineco913 on
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The only policy thats in place that I know of is a list of guidelines for equipment a RIT team should have.
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Permalink Reply by Fire Capt. 1304 on
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Our rit team is usually whoever is on the second engine, Our rit equipment is located on our Quint which is first out to all structures but usually everyone from the quint is already busy so the crew from the engine has to get the rit pack off the quint when they arrive.
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Permalink Reply by Shareef Abdu Nur on
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In my area, a RIT is established at every incident. it is not always an Engine Company. Most of the time it is a Truck Company, so therefore we do not always have our own line with a dedicated water supply. If we need a line as a RIT team, we depend on the Engine companies already operating on scene. As RIT, our job is to move fast, find the FF, get him/her on air, and prepare him/her for evac. We rely on a 2nd RIT or available companies to assist in evac of the FF. Until we are activated, our job is to ladder windows, place lights in doorways, etc... A wise FF once said, "RIT doesn't make the resuce, RIT makes the rescue possible."
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Permalink Reply by John on
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We use RIT but whoever is assigned to it must gather their tools from thier apparatus, and have thier own hoseline. We are also working on getting RIT air pack for the downed FF.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Harris on
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Hey folks,
My department uses a neighboring department for a FAST team at our calls. When our department is dispatched for this type of assignment we bring our Heavy Rescue and 6-7 personnel. We rely on a Engine at the scene to provide us with a water supply and line if needed!
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Permalink Reply by Bill Mulligan on
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we use RIT the area has just started a township wide RIT and depending on the company we all use different trucks. In my company we use our rescue pumper it has it all hand tools, saws, jaws our air bag and water if we need it. But general we will park it away from the scene and use a hand line off the closest engine if we need it. We are to work proactively and throw ladders open doors and widows.
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