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Does your department set up RIT for all calls (even smells and bells)?
What conditions are required for the need to set up a rit with your department?
What equipment do your RIT teams carry?
What conditions are required for the need to set up a rit with your department?
What equipment do your RIT teams carry?
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Permalink Reply by Jason Brooks on
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Working fires only. Usually first in mutual aid company gets that job. As for gear, this can be a ling list. Here is some, I am sure more will be added to the list by others.
SCBA
Search rope
TIC
Hand tools
chain saw
radios
Lights
Sling-Link
door chocks
Stokes is popular
Wire cutters
Here is a start.
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Permalink Reply by Dan Hoey on
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We call RIT on 2nd alarm. Besides things listed below We make sure there is one dedicated attack line for Rit and when put in motion I truck is assigned to help with egress and regress. One of the best tools we have bought was a lighted rope which is very bright and cuts smoke well and has red and green lights for direction as well as a knot system. I suggest some training for all involving RIT even if not a team member grab a couple of guys and have them feel a hose coupling and ask them which way is going forward and which was is back? and teach bottle transfers mask transfers and bottle fills in the dark. We also carry a lot of hand hydraulic tools so no need for motors.
I have a book of about 200 simple cheap drills for RIT and fire survival traning.
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Which lighted rope are you using?
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Permalink Reply by Little Black Rain Cloud on
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We don't have the man power to set up for every fire call. If we get mutual aid then we get RIT. With "smells and bells" I've never seen it done. Command drives to scene and takes a look around usually, the engine is staged near the hydrant. But then I've seen us drive up and walk around... (This was my previous dept. I'm still learning how Cibolo does it.)
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Permalink Reply by Asst. Chief Loftis on
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Just to let you know. I have started a group about RIT called Rescuing the Rescuers, if you are interested. I searched for one on here, but did not find one.
Loftis
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Permalink Reply by Mike Rehfeld on
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4th Engine arrived establishes initial RIT. Upon declaring a "working fire" or requesting an additional alarm, a RIT Task Force is dispatched 1 Engine, I Special Service (Truck or Squad) and a ALS Unit.
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Permalink Reply by zachary804 on
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I'm too young to be a part of a Rapid Intervention Team, but I've taken the class and I am technically certified in it. I know it's a difficult responsibility b/c of the added pressure of your own men being the ones you're going for. I hope to one day be a part of one.
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Permalink Reply by John Crabbe on
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bump....more pertinent than word games
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Permalink Reply by Shareef Abdu Nur on
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No, we do not set up a RIT for every call. We only set up a RIT for working fires, technical rescues, and or HAZMAT.
For a working fires, our RIT carries basic hand tools as well as a RIT pack or spare SCBA, and a search rope. Our goal is to travel fast and light, make it to the downed member, get him/her on air, and then call for more resources to extract the member. Our assignments are as follows:
1 - carries a 6 ft hook, flat head axe, and a box light
2 - carries a 6 ft hook, haligan, TIC, and a box light(this is the Officer's position)
3 - carries a Denver tool, a RIT pack or spare SCBA with facepiece, and a box light
4 - carries a haligan, a search rope, and a box light
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Permalink Reply by Padre Pete on
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When a friend and I created our county Technical Rescue Team its primary function was and is to proved the most extensively trained experts to serve as RITs to be available to all the counties 42 fire departments BECAUSE:
1. Firefighter Assistance & Safety had to be taken far more seriousely than it had been.
2. None of our departments had the luxury of enough manpower to give up their best and specically trained fire rescue/recovery people to stand by as a RIT in case the job went sour. They would be needed as initial attack people.
3. There is no way any IC could be certain that a five man team of highly skilled and expertly equiped specialist might just happen to be arriving on the next in mutual aid unit.
4. Those same specialist could expand training to include all aspects of technical rescue which would also be a resource for all departments
Since its inception the team has gone through some growing pains, like any new idea. Not the least of its problems has been overcomiing stonewalling chiefs who cling desperately to the warm memories of the last century. Numerous FEMA grants have provided financeing for a specifically designated cargo truck loaded with virtually every imaginable piece of tech rescue gear and equipment. Its working. Most of the training takes place, not at our regular drills but at special week-ends at our State Fire Academy.
I wasn't always "Padre". Keep The faith. Pete
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Permalink Reply by James Burton (Jamie) on
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My Department usually waits until the first Mutual Aid Department arrives on a house fire before setting up RIT. If we are on a structure fire alone, we do 2 in 2 out rule so the 2 out kinda takes on the responsibility of RIT. Our Department has a RIT bag with all the normal goodies.
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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No, setting up RIT when there is no IDLH atmosphere is silly and wasteful.
The primary requirement is an IDLH atmosphere with RIT equipped to a) survive in the atmosphere and b) find and rescue a lost, injured, or trapped firefighter.
RIT equipment includes a RIT bag with a complete RIT SCBA, spare facepiece, transfill hose, a search line, alternate light sources, webbing, carabiners, cutting tools (trauma shears and wire cutters), and a solid stokes basket. RIT also carries our standard forcible entry tools - at least one set of irons, a 4-foot New York roof hook, at least one TIC, and any other tools that may be situationally required. All RIT members carry a portable radio on the incident tactical channel, which becomes the RIT channel in the event of a MAYDAY.
We practice active RIT - RIT forces Side C doors at strip malls or other commercial occupancies, ensures that they know where the engine and truck companies entered, where they are going, and their assignment.
If the fire is large enough, a second company may be assigned to a hoseline that covers RIT if they have to enter the structure.
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