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Permalink Reply by william on February 17, 2008 at 2:32pm

most of the time there is a ladder placed on each side of the building but other then that we go from the hip when needed...every time its going to be diff...

Permalink Reply by Daniel on June 8, 2008 at 6:00pm

this is a small department, we don't have the funding or dedicated training, but we do practice it. Even on our trips to the training tower, we always have a two man team with everything on but air. Most of our gear has the harness built in, and a grip below the collar on the back.

What we did for FF1 class was we talked about dragging a patient out and spent5 the next hour or so discussing the best way to help out our brothers.


But as far as SOP's two man team on duty, they are rotated from standby every 30 min or so, and they keep an axe and haligan with them. They stay there too.

Permalink Reply by INNER CIRCLE FIRE TRAINING on November 25, 2008 at 12:32pm

Daniel,

What Department are you with? I just wrote a 2 hour lecture discussing the importance of RIT "Beyond the Tarp". A Tarp and a hand full of tools do not give you the skills to be a RIT team. I don't mean to sound harsh, but I am very passionate about saving our own, our brothers and sisters, the fathers, mothers, and sons of our closest friends.

The lecture does not tell you how to do RIT. It simply gets a large group fired up and passionate about wanting to do more RIT training. From there you can bring in any number of Trainers or Training groups, or go to them, and expand on your RIT knowledge and techniques. But, we need to recognize that RIT is not a class, it is a continued thought process for every perpetual student of the fire service. Please call me if you want to talk more about the potential training opportunities.

Michael Waldron
INNER CIRCLE FIRE TRAINING

Permalink Reply by Todd Jennings on April 16, 2009 at 7:30pm

Changing Our Ways Training can assist in writting SOP's and SOG's. The most important thing about RIT SOG's are they need to be very flexable.

Permalink Reply by Tim Zehnder on September 3, 2009 at 9:48am

Todd, can you give be a copy of what you guys are doing out there, I run a fire training program in Minnesota and have done alot of work on the programs here in our state. My e-mail is tim.zehnder@southcentral.edu Thanks