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RIT TRAINING
When was the last time your department / station / shift brushed up on RIT? RIT is so important, but is something you hope you never have to do, a fallen firefighter is one of the last things you want to hear come across your radio. But, if it happened to you or someone else today, how "rusty" are your co-workers?
Here's how we did it: Pull the vehs. out and close up your bay. Dark it out. (We have a smoke machine for parties and haloween that has been a great training tool for teaching smokie conditions to probies.) Smoke out the bay. Have one ff play the "victim" and place them within the bay, one ff looks, finds, calls for RIT, sets up buddy breathing, and pulls vic out of building. Try it, let me know how all y'all did.
Here's how we did it: Pull the vehs. out and close up your bay. Dark it out. (We have a smoke machine for parties and haloween that has been a great training tool for teaching smokie conditions to probies.) Smoke out the bay. Have one ff play the "victim" and place them within the bay, one ff looks, finds, calls for RIT, sets up buddy breathing, and pulls vic out of building. Try it, let me know how all y'all did.
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Permalink Reply by A.Kent Henson on
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We do this plus snake a bunch of charged lines for them to follow and then have the members use for self rescue. We also "junk it up" to simulate collapse. And we try to tangle them up with tarps and unplugged electrical cord. Anything to get them to slow down and think about whats happening so they wont freak if it really happened. The county also has a prop that simulates falling through the floor. It is a tilting floor where you tumble a few feet into a pile of cushions. We also have RIC crews in place at every burn simulation for practice and everyone rotates into it.
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Permalink Reply by Cristina M Blanco on
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Thanks for the responce Kent! We have flowed water on this and other trainings, but we are currently on water restrictions. The floor simulation is a great idea!
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Permalink Reply by jeff nunziato on
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we do alot of this training. we did rit training with a roof collapse using truss we got free from a local truss company put a firefighter in it and we had to get them out. we also do bail out training with ropes and with ladders going.
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Permalink Reply by Pascal Marchand on
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Insted of flowing water for indoor RIT or search training we fill the line with air. But you need a regulator and a relif valve because to much air pressure in a hose line could be dangerous to. We keep it at 25 psi.
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Permalink Reply by Rob Odenwald on
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RIT training can't be practiced enough. When RIT training use FF's to play the victim and have them call a complete "Mayday" using the LUNAR accronym. L-location, U-unit #, N-name, A- assignment/ air, R-resources needed. When practicing don't forget the chiefs. They need to practice answering the Mayday and taking proper actions. The more repitition and practice we do the better prepared we will all be. Along with RIT, practice Air Management and situational awareness so we don't have to call a Mayday. Practice with the RIT bag and SCBA often. Use press-n-seal over the mask and full PPE and practice making the RIT and buddy breathing connections. I used to meet alot of resistance, however I remind them the RIT is for their brother and sister FF's. Traing doesn't need to be long and detailed. I put out Weekly Drills for my dept. for RIT. I'll be happy to send them to you if you shoot me your e-mail
Keep traing and stay safe.
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Rob, our dispatchers also get involved in the radio traffic for training. They listen to the traffic on real incidents also because they tone out the mayday signal, multiple pre-alerts, in case IC doesnt catch the initial traffic. You have the right idea for constant training. Be safe, Kent
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