Firefighter Search Paper

What happens when a home catches on fire and there are helpless citizens trapped inside or when a firefighter is injured inside a fire and can not get out? Firefighters train long hours sacrificing their blood, sweat, and tears to be prepared for any situation that may arise during a emergency such as search and rescue, rescue of a downed firefighter, high angle rope rescue, water rescue, and also confined space rescue. Not all firefighters are trained in search and rescue; only the most qualified firefighters become certified members of a technical rescue team. Technical rescue teams train for hours upon hours to be the best they can be whether there answering a call to a car accident or a burning building. Search and rescue is defined as actions that trained members of rescue teams perform at emergency scenes to remove some one from immediate danger, or to extricate victims if they are already entrapped ("Indiana Fire Department " 4-3).
A “mayday” is a call for help when any type of mayday is issued all radio traffic will end and only the incident commander will try and communicate with the downed firefighter, if possible, to find a fixed location on where the firefighter is. There are two types of maydays a PASS activated mayday and a radio activated mayday. The PASS activated mayday is activated when the incident commander is told by a firefighter that a firefighters PASS device is going off if the incident cammander tries to reach the firefighter with no reponse he will activate a mayday and will send the fully geared up R.I.T team inside to find the injured firefighter. The second type of mayday is a radio activated mayday , were a injured firefighter says mayday mayday in to the radio , all radio trafiic will stop and the incident commander will find the approximate location of the firefighter and will send in the fully geared up R.I.T team.("Indiana fire department "