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Through the late 1960s and early 1970s
the London Fire Brigade introduced RIT procedures using EATL and EASE equipment
(Emergency Air Transfer Lines & Emergency Air Supply Equipment). This
consisted of designated firefighter search & rescue teams (termed Emergency
Crews) stationed at BA control entry points, equipped with emergency SCBA
specifically designed to be worn by unconscious, injured or trapped
firefighters.
Fire Departments should utilize a Rapid Intervention Team (RIT)
at all structure fires with good reason. More fire fighters die in residential
occupancies than in any other type of structure fire and are typically the most
common type of occupancy that fire fighters encounter. Both the NFPA and OSHA
have requirements for some type of RIT at structure fires. These standards
requiring that a minimum of two fire fighters be standing by outside in full
protective equipment, while other crew members are working in a hazardous
atmosphere, are the result of a series of incidents where fire fighters became
lost, trapped, or disoriented while fighting a structure fire without a RIT
present.
This site is dedicated to those fire fighters who have lost their lives in the
line of duty as well as the fire instructors that have spent numerous hours
training fire fighters to get out alive and rescue our own.
If you are a certified RIT/Survival instructor and would like to have your
website or e-mail posted under the "Instructors" section of
rapidintervention.com, or if you are aware of any RIT/Survival training taking
place in your area, please feel free to forward your information to james.crawford@rapidintervention.com.
We are also looking for new articles and ideas for our monthly training topics
as well as vendors providing rapid intervention related products that would like
to be posted under the rapid intervention "Resources" section. This
site has only one direction, to grow BIGGER. We will keep adding RIT information
to this site monthly. So make rapidintervention.com one of your most used
training stops for RIT and visit us daily.
This free-use site has been developed to provide you with all the information
needed to arm yourself in providing Rapid Intervention on the fireground. We
have compiled the most in depth list of RIT resources ever assembled in one
place. It is our hope that this information source will help Rapid Intervention
team members, fire officers, firefighters, or even city/town leaders to set up,
or continue to expand and train, their Rapid Intervention teams. If you can't
immediately find the information that you are looking for, you will be able to
find an answer with one of our linked resource contacts. Search through our list
of manufacturers/vendors and find that piece of RIT equipment you've been
looking for. Enter our forums and post your knowledge of RIT for others to
learn. Read our monthly RIT training articles to gain knowledge or to assist you
in developing your own training program. Most of all -- use this site as often
as you want, because it's yours and it can only assist us in our goal, to help
stop firefighters from perishing in burning buildings.
