dAgum NO QUIT RIT

This class is designed from NFPA 1407 for Rapid Intervention Training. The purpose of this standard is to specify a training program that is designed to create a highly disciplined operational capability to rescue firefighter(s) who become lost, injured, trapped, incapacitated, or disoriented at an emergency scene or in the course of a training operation. Students will get lecture and case studies of past incidents, as well as best practices gathered from departments around the country. This class is a physically taxing course, and involves skills sessions designed to teach firefighters how to overcome obstacles they may encounter when rescuing a downed firefighter. Skill Sessions include: 

- Donning and Doffing Techniques

- RIT Pack Orientation

-Large Area Disorientation/Re-orientation

-Basic drags and carries/harnesses/and knots

-Wall Breach Techniques

-Denver/Pittsburg/Nance Drills

-Ground ladder throwing techniques

-Forcible Entry

-Rescue saw operations

-Ladder as a high point 

-Full RIT operations Scenarios

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This class is for all firefighters who may operate as a RIT company while on a fire scene.

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