Chapter 6 "RIT Deployment" Flashcards
What can cause a RIT to not be able to fulfill their primary purpose of rescue?
Being Mentally and Physically unprepared
RIT members should be prepared that they themselves could?
Become Trapped
The ideal RIT team is comprised of a?
5 person, two-teamed rapid intervention unit.
Having two teams ensures what?
A RIT for the RIT
A Two-Team RIT action plan’s primary components are?
Lightly equipped, agile entry team
Multi-Purpose Support Team
The Entry Team in the Two-Team model is in charge of?
Setting up the initial staging tarp and necessary equipment. Once done with that this time remains in a “high level of readiness”
The Support Team in the Two-Team model is in charge of?
Gathering additional needed equipment for staging, then sizes up ladder and hose resources. After they complete this they can be assigned to scene safety task and on-going size up.
The Second Team/Support Team is the RIT’s what?
Insurance Policy, they are the RIT to the RIT
While the entry team is outside what can the second team perform?
Safety Task
When must the second team report to the RIT Staging area?
Upon receiving a MAYDAY
What word is used in most fire departments to indicate a firefighter in distress?
MAYDAY
In the event a MAYDAY is transmitted IC should?
Repeat the word MAYDAY on all OPS channels, request radio silence and prepare RIT for deployment.
What should be done to confirm interior reports and ensure no other firefighters are lost or trapped?
Perform a PAR
RIT is deployed when?
When the location or general area of the problem is determined.
What is vital that other teams do while RIT performs its functions?
Other teams must continue their assigned task.
If an IC notices a particular hazard but can not get ahold of interior crews what me he/she do?
Call upon RIT to make entry and retrieve those individuals in the hazard area and remove them
If PAR indicates a missing responder what team should be activated?
RIT
Does a RIT team have to move in a strict pattern like primary and secondary searchers use?
No, due to the fact that they have a rope and have a general idea of where the downed firefighter is they can move more directly.
Where should the entry team secure its search rope?
Immediately outside the hazard zone
At each room the entry team should perform?
Visual and Audio Survey
Will firefighters buried in rubble show up on thermal imagers?
No
A thing to remember is upon locating the downed firefighter what may still be present?
The hazard i.e. entrapment, disorientation, or injury
What is the most important technique to help locate a downed firefighter?
On-Going Size Up
Interior Search Techniques for Locating Firefighters:
Hoselines / Ropes Radio Contact Witness Accounts Listen Carefully Watch Carefully Remembering Firefighter Survival Training
One of the greatest advancements in technology to find firefighters is
Mass Deployment of Thermal Imaging Cameras
Can TIC’s replace a solid foundation in structural search techniques?
No
RIT drills should first be conducted ________ TIC’s.
without
Types of Thermal Imagers:
Hand-Held
Helmet Mounted
Benefits of Hand-Held TIC’s:
Flexible
Easily aimed in the direction needed
Easily shared between FF’s
Quickly allows the FF to look through the TIC or move it and search the area with his/her eyes
Forms of technology available to locate firefighters
TIC's GPS Building Scanners Body Sensors Accountability Software NextGEN PASS
Whats the biggest change in accountability systems?
Switch from Passive to Active Systems
The first type of indoor positioning system used
Radio Frequency (RF) that ranged from AM to Ultra-Wide Band
GPS can not track what?
Elevation
NFPA 1982
Standard on Personal Alert Safety Systems
Once a RIT team has located a downed firefighter they must perform a?
Rapid Patient Assessment
The RIT team should be concerned about what hazards while performing the rescue of a firefighter?
Presence of Entanglement Hazards
Live Wires
Secondary Collapse
Advancing Fire
One of the most vital task when checking a downed firefighter is?
checking his/her SCBA
If the initial size up indicates an air supply issue there are two options:
1 - Quickly extricate the downed firefighter
2 - Stay where they are and secure an air supply
If choosing to stay and secure an air supply the following options are available:
Emergency Breathing Support System (EBSS)
Spare SCBA
Supplied Air Respirator (SAR)
All new SCBA’s have a rapid intervention crew universal air coupler (RIC UAC) located how far from the cylinder outlet?
4” (100 mm)
The best method for maintaining long term air supply to a downed firefighter?
SAR (Supplied Air Repirator)
The following information should be gathered from a conscious, breathing firefighter with an air supply:
Name, Company and whether he/she is alone
If he/she is injured or experiencing a medical problem
Nature of the victims collapse, entrapment, or disorientation.
If a traumatic injury is indicated on the firefighter what must the RIT consider?
Using spinal immobilization to remove the firefighter.
Before putting the plan into action the RIT team must report the following to the RIT Team Officer:
Situation
Entrapment Issues
Whether or not additional resources are needed
What the next action will be
United States Fire Administration data shows that _______ or ____ ______ is the leading cause of Firefighter fatalities. Some years representing over half of all firefighter fatalities.
“Stress or Over Exertion”
A human brain begins to die in how many minutes if it does not receive oxygen?
A few minutes
All RIT’s should either carry one of these or locate one of these vital pieces of medical equipment?
AED
What can reduce physical stress in firefighters and lower the probability of cardiac incidents while on scene?
REHAB after their first cylinder
