Rapid intervention company operations (R.I.C.O.) /
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Clifton Park, NY :
Thomson Delmar Learning,
c2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Understanding rapid intervention (teams, readiness, proactive behavior, firefighter rescue) - Compliance and standards (risk management, OSHA, NFPA) - Mayday management, operations, and communication preparedness (pre-fire planning, proactive behavior, radio and mayday communications, RIT deployment, dispatch centers) - Firefighter [fire fighter] self-survival (self-preparedness, vehicle preparedness, disorientation) - SCBA emergencies and survival skills (self contained breathing apparatus training, air consumption, emergency check, buddy breathing and other emergency escape procedures, facepiece-to-facepiece, robbing the bottle, restrictive area techniques, toxic or hot bottle change) - Ropes, knots, anchoring, and basic mechanical advantage for rapid interventions (figure eight, tensionless hitch, butterfly, handcuff knot, bowline, Prussik or rescue loop, Munter hitch, water or tape knot, modified diaper harness) - Firefighter emergency escape maneuvers (self-survival, wall breaching, emergency egress through windows, straddle and hang, hang and drop, sliding ladder, emergency rope slide, webbing, emergency hose slide, drywall ladder technique) - Removal preparation and emergency air supply (assessment and communication, compatibility) - Moving the downed firefighter: carries and drags (extremity carry, cradle carry, blanket carry, other alternative carry, side by side drag, lift and lead drag, push and pull drag, tool drag, blanket drag, webbing, rescue loops, multiple rescuer staircase lift, stair raise with tool, 2 to 1 mechanical advantage with rescue litter) - Subfloor rescues: raising the downed firefighter (lifting using hoseline, handcuff knot raise, handcuff cradle, W single rope four-way haul, using bight of rope, ladder through the floor, 2 to 1 mechanical advantage systems) -
- (Contents cont'd): Removal and lowering firefighters from windows (rescuer body ramp, seated window removal, knee-method, Denver drill, piggy back, longboard and sling, alternative single rescuer, high point anchors, 2 to 1 mechanical advantage) - Removing distressed firefighters using ladders and aerial devices (ground ladders, face in groin removal, straddle method ladder removal, horizontal cradle carry ladder removal, one firefighter ladder raise, rapid intervention team operations) - Roof operations (simple removal, halligan anchor lifting systems, trench cut method, rescue litter ladder slide method, ladder fulcrum) - Enlarging openings (forcible entry, tools, wood frame, masonry, metal-sided walls, stucco and frame, lightweight steel construction, glass block, doors, exterior overhead doors, roll up doors, sectional overhead doors, tilt up doors, burglar bars) - Rapid intervention and the thermal imaging environment - (history of thermal imaging technology, how thermal imaging cameras work, drawbacks and limitations, search and thermal imaging, TIC lead search, landmark search) - Search techniques and search rope systems (large area searches, standard searches, simple oriented search, main line rope assisted team search, oriented search in structures: hoseline or rope, air supply limitations, components of search rope system) -
- (Contents cont'd): Rapid intervention and the collapse environment (collapse indicators, establishing a collapse zone, operational plan, reconnaissance and rescue of surface victims, initial void search, debris removal, debriefing) - Rapid intervention training (adult learning, safety, objectives, props, simulators: wall stud, sono tubes, wall breach, entanglement, a-frame, Denver simulator, drills, scenario-based training [simulated debris collapse with entanglement, large area search - four person company, downed firefighters with wall breach, firefighter removal from basement - collapsed staircase, firefighters trapped beneath collapse, firefighters through the floor with restricted space removal] - Glossary.