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 ...
In the last 30 years, the fire service has made huge gains in the area of SCBA use. Today, most departments have strict policies that address when, where and how SCBAs should be used. That’s a long ...
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 ...