Rapid Intervention for the Understaffed Company

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Great article, and very applicable to our area.

Of all the possible topics to write about, how did I end up writing about understaffed rapid intervention? For starters, it’s an important issue to address because both volunteer and career departments across the country are being affected by staffing shortages. A volunteer department may find that it has every seat full for a structure fire on a Saturday afternoon only to have three firefighters respond to a structure fire that comes in Monday morning. This may be a little better than a career department where units are always short staffed. Although they know that they will be short staffed and can train and prepare for understaffed operations, it doesn’t change the fact that they will always have fewer firefighters than they need. Regardless of the type of fire department, every firefighter needs to know how to operate, and most importantly, how to be successful when operating on a rapid intervention team (RIT) that is short staffed. We cannot fail to rescue a brother or sister because we were not prepared to operate on an understaffed RIT.

ARTICLE: http://www.fdic.com/articles/2016/01/dave-topczynski-rapid-intervention-for-the-understaffed-company.html