Does your department have different self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) on every apparatus that might respond to a fire? This rapid-intervention team (RIT) drill stemmed from multi-company fires ...
Learning your personal air consumption rate during routine fireground tasks is not difficult–but it can have an enormous impact on your safety and effectiveness in an environment that’s immediately ...
As company officers, we don’t necessarily need firefighters who can recite each of our standard operating procedures/guidelines (SOPs/SOGs) verbatim. What we do need: firefighters who can perform a ...