Today I had a second dose of RIT team training with 4 man crews. We went in blind again (wax paper in mask) and were the second team in to help extract the victim. This time they person was covered in debris. Half way through the pretend victim went into cardiac arrest. The person at the head pulled off the mask and helmet and removed the hands from the jacket. The person on the left hand side of the victim helped loosen air pack straps, the person on the victim's right hand side started chest compressions and the person at the victim's feet pulled them out of the equipment.
As usually it takes time to learn and develop those skills. We were in full gear so that always makes things more difficult. If real chaos happens we have to be as second nature as possible and rely heavily on training. Other things we learned were better ways of rolling and preparing hoses as well as how to move people down the staircase (My back is a little sore. Yikes!)
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