may day firefighter down procedures

We are looking to update our policy on may day firefighter down procedures and wondered which of you have policies for this and what your policy states. Thanks in advance for all input.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Cayse on March 31, 2009 at 9:38am

Attached are the City of Cincinnati Procedures for MAYDAY and RIT which we call RAT. They work very well for us and have succesfully pulled our members from buildings. Hope this helps

Mike Cayse

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20208 MayDay.doc, 27 KB
20209 RAT.doc, 34 KB

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Permalink Reply by Eng10Squad on April 1, 2009 at 11:10am

In all IDLH environments we establish RIT. If something terrible goes wrong (hopefully never) the hurt or disoriented fire fighter will cast a MAYDAY over the operating channel. ALL units and personnel will change their radios to a different tactical channel and only the OIC, RIT, and the victim will be on the original channel. We use LUNAR to annouce what is going on:

L- Location ( Basement fell through the first floor)
U- Unit ( Engine 101 fire attack)
N- Name ( FF Smith )
A- Air ( 3000 psi or 3/4 full)
R- Resources ( Resources needed to make rescue)

We have never had to use it and I pray that we never have to but we train on this every month. I can not express how much this needs to be trained on.