You may only get one chance to do it right... Mayday Event Learning the hands -on rapid intervention techniques and bringing a MAYDAY event to a successful conclusion are two entirely different animals! There are countless highly trained, properly equipped and adequately staffed rapid intervention crews around the nation who are being set up for failure without a properly trained officer who will be charged with responsibility of managing the MAYDAY event.

Up to this point, we've offered our RIT 1407, the instense hands-on program that teaches the live-saving skills and techniques that your RIT needs to know and perform flawlessly as a "stand-alone" program.

Often, the  follow-up  program requested has been  "Managing the MAYDAY",  an intense program that delves into how the "wheels can falls off" during a MAYDAY event and to show how to use sound managment principles to make a bad event turn good. 

While  the back-step firefighters and the company officer have a vested interest in this program, the bottom line is that the  IC must manage the MAYDAY and  the company officer and  his company must execute the plan.

To improve the odds of a favorable outcome, Task Force 1, Inc.  will now present  a two day program, Mayday Event. It consists of two discinct programs, Managing  the MAYDAY and RIT 1407. On the second day of MAYDAY EVENT the two classes join to have  the officers from the Managing the Mayday serving as command officers on the MAYDAY exercises allowing each group of students to build confidence for a MAYDAY event.

RIT  1407:  For Firefighters , Company Officers and RIT members
The goal of the RIT 1407 program is to provide personnel with highly disciplined operational capabilities to rescue fire fighter(s) who become lost, injured, trapped, incapacitated, or in the course of an emergency scene or training operation as part of a Rapid Intervention Team.

The participants will demonstrate an understanding the following objectives through a series of  hands-on training evolutions:   Risk assessment and risk management  The activation and management of RIT operations.  Communications procedures specific to RIT functions  Accountability and resource management  Rapid intervention crew deployment to the scene

Managing the Mayday : For Chief and Command Officers

Managing the Mayday  Common themes in firefighter fatalities  Decision making on the fire ground  Your preparedness for MAYDAY event  The role of a MAYDAY as a component of an intact system for survival  Accountability in the chain of survival The role of standard operating procedures The relationship of the ICS and RIT The critical steps in managing a MAYDAY event Experience the reality of a MAYDAY event

If your department would like to host this new program OR you would like additional  information, please eamil us at training@taskforce1.net.