Jeonnam Fire Department Trains Rapid Rescue Teams to Save Colleagues in Danger on Site

The 1st Firefighter Survival Rescue Training Conducted

Jeonnam Fire Headquarters (Chief Oh Seung-hoon) is accelerating the training of specialized personnel to quickly respond and rescue colleagues in the event of accidents involving on-site personnel.

Jeonnam Fire announced on the 31st that it conducted the '1st Firefighter Survival Rescue (R.I.T) Course Training' for 30 rescue team members over five days starting from the 27th.

Rapid Intervention Team (R.I.T.) refers to a team responsible for rapid response in cases of firefighter entrapment or burial accidents occurring during on-site activities.

As one of the policies for responding to and preventing safety accidents involving fire service personnel on-site, the Rapid Intervention Team's necessity has increased due to the recent trend of large-scale and complex disaster scenes such as the fire at a new construction site in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, and the fire at a logistics center in Gyeonggi Province.

Jeonnam Fire improved and supplemented the shortcomings identified during last year's pilot operation to cultivate domestic specialized personnel in the Rapid Intervention field and adopted it as an official curriculum at the Jeonnam Fire School this year.

The training focused on firefighter self-escape and colleague rescue, including ▲ ladder emergency escape ▲ emergency rescue using fire hoses ▲ use of basic RIT equipment ▲ air supply training for trapped personnel.

Moon Byung-woon, head of Jeonnam Fire School, said, "Through this training, we will strive to secure the safety of firefighters and the public by enhancing the specialized response capabilities of the Rapid Intervention Team and enabling swift rescue responses in entrapment accidents."

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