Purpose and Definitions
Minimum Staffing For Interior Structural Fire Fighting Operations
Purpose:
To establish procedures that insure the highest level of fire ground safety when operating in an atmosphere that is immediately dangerous to life and health as found in the interior structural fire fighting.
Definitions:
- Entry Team: A minimum of two (2) firefighters with SCBA’s working together as a team, maintaining voice or visual contact, performing rescue and or fire fighting operations in the interior of a structure. (May also be referred to as interior sector)
- Incipient Stage Fires: A fire in the initial or beginning stage which can be controlled or extinguished by a portable fire extinguisher, Class II standpipe, or small hose with out the need of a SCBA.
- Rapid Intervention Team (RIT): A minimum of two (2) firefighters equipped and trained on standby outside the structure to provide assistance or perform rapid rescue. One of the exterior crewmembers must be free of all other tasks in order to account for personnel and initiate a rescue of entry teams inside the structure. The second exterior crewmember may perform other tasks such as safety officer, or pump operator, etc.
- Rapid Intervention Team Leader: A firefighter assigned by the incident commander to be in charge of the rapid intervention Team. This person shall be referred to as the RIT leader.
- “Mayday”: A universal term used by personnel in distress in need of immediate emergency assistance.
Minimum Staffing For Interior Structural Fire Fighting Operations
Purpose:
To establish procedures that insure the highest level of fire ground safety when operating in an atmosphere that is immediately dangerous to life and health as found in the interior structural fire fighting.
Definitions:
- Entry Team: A minimum of two (2) firefighters with SCBA’s working together as a team, maintaining voice or visual contact, performing rescue and or fire fighting operations in the interior of a structure. (May also be referred to as interior sector)
- Incipient Stage Fires: A fire in the initial or beginning stage which can be controlled or extinguished by a portable fire extinguisher, Class II standpipe, or small hose with out the need of a SCBA.
- Rapid Intervention Team (RIT): A minimum of two (2) firefighters equipped and trained on standby outside the structure to provide assistance or perform rapid rescue. One of the exterior crewmembers must be free of all other tasks in order to account for personnel and initiate a rescue of entry teams inside the structure. The second exterior crewmember may perform other tasks such as safety officer, or pump operator, etc.
- Rapid Intervention Team Leader: A firefighter assigned by the incident commander to be in charge of the rapid intervention Team. This person shall be referred to as the RIT leader.
- “Mayday”: A universal term used by personnel in distress in need of immediate emergency assistance.
