I'm hi jacking a thread a bit I appologise for that but an interesting side bar has popped up from discussions about a 360 check and that is how do RIT operations work in your area,is it a special group assignment with certain members trained or how does it work in your area. For our area most members are or soon will be trained to be a RITteam member and the OIC assigns individuals this task on site. How does this differ in your area and how does it work for you.
Our one close neighbor is the best possible mutual aid a fire department could hope for, but our geography simply makes it difficult for us to use much mutual aid from anywhere else.