On the morning of August 17, 2010, firefighters from Long Beach Fire Department joined firefighters from Boeing Fire Department for a joint exercise at the Boeing building number 15.\u00a0 This structure is an enormous warehouse-like facility that has been used for aircraft manufacture.\u00a0 Various scenarios were set up by proctors in order to test firefighter\u2019s abilities to handle rapidly changing condition on the fire ground.\u00a0 RIC team operations and large area search practices we also employed.\u00a0 RIC stands for rapid intervention crew and is used in the event a firefighter should become trapped or seriously injured in the course of an emergency.\u00a0 It is customary for on scene units to perform a thorough search of a fire building for persons trapped by flames.\u00a0 In the case of the incident RIC team deployment, firefighters will be searching for one our own members who has become a victim of the incident.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0In one of these scenarios, initial fire crews were met with a large volume of fire inside of a warehouse.\u00a0 Firefighter\u2019s masks were covered with a plastic material in an effort to obscure their vision and provide a feeling of working in a smoky environment.\u00a0 Shortly after the initial interior attack the incident commander received an emergency call that there had been a large-scale roof collapse with one firefighter trapped in the rubble.\u00a0 Immediately, the incident\u2019s RIC team was deployed to find and rescue the downed first responder.\u00a0 Rescuers were forced to use power saws to cut through debris as they made their way to the trapped firefighter.\u00a0 During the rescue, all members needed to maintain crew accountability as well as monitor their own air usage.\u00a0 Once the injured firefighter was located, he was provided fresh air, freed from debris and dragged to safety.\u00a0 As with any fire rescue, all efforts required coordination between units assigned to fire attack and those assigned to RIC functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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