How many personal to you use for a RIT team??

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Williamson on July 10, 2009 at 12:07pm

We have a SOG that states a minimum of 4 but being in those classes I have always felt that we need more. If a rescue gets technical you can easily go 30 mins trying to rescue. Luckily we have never had to do it it live - only in practice. Being ISO i am always interested in other peoples thought on this subject as well.

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Permalink Reply by Reggie Anglin on July 28, 2009 at 3:26pm

Hey brother how you doing. My name is reggie. I work for two small towns part time fire departments. Its really varies to how many guys are working that day. One house has 6 the other has 3 maybe 4. As a rit , the one company we have 3 guys. The other 3 guys as RIT.

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Permalink Reply by John Crabbe on August 29, 2009 at 8:57pm

Third due engine (4 personnel) is dedicated as the RIT team.

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Permalink Reply by Bill Mulligan on August 31, 2009 at 1:34am

We can roll with max 6 I don't like to move with less than four. I look at it this way two is one one is none. We are using a twop wide response right know early stages.

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Permalink Reply by Spanner 122 on September 4, 2009 at 12:51pm

We use 4, but sometimes it seems Chief will assign a Rescue crew (we run three man Heavy Rescue), which seems to defeat the purpose of A) having a full RIT team and B)having the Heavy on scene.
We also have secondary teams set up as soon as one is deployed. They will be ready to go with another RIT bag/bottle, tools, etc if the need arises. Generally speaking, if you have deployed one, you will likely deploy two, unless you're going in to help out a broken ankle (and even then it could happen).

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