Video: Rapid Intervention Crew Positions

Tip of the Spear: This video from the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Training Division reviews rapid intervention crew (RIC) positions and responsibilities. It describes how having preassigned positions can help members more efficiently rescue a down firefighter.

Videos produced and narrated by Captain Juan Miguel. Video By Captain Rick Stephens.

Rapid Intervention Team: Is Your Commitment Sufficient?

Rapid Intervention Basics for Firefighters

Rapid Intervention: Focus on the R’s

Rapid Intervention Team Size-up and Actions

MORE TRAINING

Firefighter Training Video: RIC Bag Connections

Video: Live Burn Training with Miami-Dade Fire Recruits

Firefighter Training Video: Water-Jet Eductor

Video: Triple U Standpipe Deployment

Hand entrapped in rope gripper

Elevator Rescue: Rope Gripper Entrapment

Mike Dragonetti discusses operating safely while around a Rope Gripper and two methods of mitigating an entrapment situation.
Delta explosion

Two Workers Killed, Another Injured in Explosion at Atlanta Delta Air Lines Facility

Two workers were killed and another seriously injured in an explosion Tuesday at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport.