The RIC team is a team of two or more firefighters dedicated solely to search and rescue of other firefighters in distress.The standards are the result of a series of incidents where fire fighters became lost, trapped, or disoriented while fighting a structure fire without a RIC team present. CFPD trains all personnel, paid and volunteer, in rescue duties following a standard two-in-two-out rule, where two teams of two firefighters responding to a fire will assume either fire suppression of rescue duties. Since CFPD is a small department the scenario would be similar to :Team A enters while team B is held at the entry point. When team A emerges, team B enters making team A now the rescue crew.
However larger departments rarely utilize firefighters that have exhausted their self contained breathing apparatus fighting a fire as a RIC team, due to the exhaustion factor.
