All Blog Posts Tagged 'rit' (3)

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So as my questions asks, "What is actually in your turnout pockets?" I am a firm believer that every firefighter should be equipped with the basic tools required to start self-preservation/rescue operations when confronted with firefighter entrapment. Now I am pretty sure folding spanners have a place on the fireground but when was the last time you used one inside a burning building? Besides modern fire apparatus have so many spanners mounted on it, it will make your head spin. So at the start… Continue

Does RIT really work? Does RIT really work? There is a lot of evidence that RIT teams, no matter how well-trained, are ineffective in saving firefighters in real-life Mayday situations. If this were not the case, we’d be hearing RIT success stories on a daily basis. We don’t. There are numerous accounts of ineffective RIT responses. Here are a few: http://www.firehouse.com/lodd/2001/az_reportapr5.html http://www.firetimes.com/story.asp?FragID=8399 http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/fire/reports/f… Continue