In this week’s True Grit Nugget, the focus is on taking a proactive approach to Rapid Intervention Teams (RIT). Learn why RIT crews should stay engaged, anticipate potential problems, and prepare before an emergency happens, helping ensure they’re ready to act when a firefighter needs assistance.

This training took place at the Colorado State Fire Fighters Association 2026 Fire College in Aurora, Colorado.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

 It’s like we talk about proactive RIT. Mm-hmm. And that’s being thinking firefighters, realizing that stuff before it snowballs into something bigger. Yeah. Like, you see the line taut that’s caught under a door or something like that. Yeah. It’s like not walking by that stuff at all because that’s the stuff that’s like, you know, that could have snowballed into why the line was so short that it was just stuck out here.

Yep. And we had 30 more feet. But if everybody just keeps walking by it- Yeah … now it can turn into a mayday that we could have avoided. Yeah. I mean, all you gotta do is bend down and walk a little more in. Don’t walk by something you can do.

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