Today, members of the RTFD headed to Company 84’s first due to attend a firefighter self preservation and MAYDAY training program, which was taught by Chief Nick Sohyda of the Mt. Lebanon Fire Department. This was designed to provide knowledge of safety manage resources and training Mayday emergencies. The course addressed command and control techniques such as: tactical benchmarking, effective communications and effective accountability. This is another class to add to our ever growing training programs that now can be added to our RIT program with the RTFD. The RTFD would like to thank Chief Nick Sohyda for his time and knowledge and helping to take another step to RIT standardization within the operations of the fire service.

Every week on Tuesday evening, fifty two weeks out of the year, the RTFD holds an in house training program. This training program has never missed a beat from years past and to this date, it’s still going very strong. This particular night proved that this program will stay strong for years to come. “Ropes and Knot’s” was the agenda for the evening as members split into two groups to review and discuss the works of the operation. A overwhelming attendance was witnessed with well over forty members who came to train between the RTFD and Geistown Fire Department. This shows that the two departments are working very well together since the consolidation talks have begun these past months. We would like to thank our very own; Lieut. Haberkorn and Rope Guru: Bob Buck who taught this evenings class.

“Pride is our Strength”