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TWO-IN/TWO-OUT & RIT
Receiving a Mayday
- Recognize Mayday
- Notify dispatch of Mayday and clear air, emergency traffic
- Go ahead with Mayday
- Name
- Unit
- Location (hear, feel, see?)
- Conditions
- Able to get out on own?
- Trapped?
- Offer instruction (e.g., remain calm, conserve air, alert PASS device, pound on wall with tool, move toward outside wall)
- Keep Mayday on the frequency initiated
Receiving a Mayday
- Advice crews to
- Continue to fight fire – or
- Continue to fight fire – or
- Withdraw to safe location – or
- Abandon structure
- PAR completed
Activate RIT? 
Yes No
Receiving a Mayday
- Call additional alarm for firefighter rescue branch
- Establish firefighter rescue branch
- Get an aide for Incident Commander and firefighter branch director
- Assign activated RIT to firefighter branch
- Reassign RIT
- Reassign safety
- Designate location of base/staging
- Maintain accountability
Communication
- A trapped or missing firefighter should never be asked to change radio channels once they have called Mayday.
- Move tactical firefighting operations to a separate tactical channel
- Monitor firefighter rescue branch (original tactical channel)
- Notify fire chief/safety officer
- Monitor lost or trapped firefighter at all times
- Search group may use talk channel
- Request incident management team
- Request support group chaplains
