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General Slang
FAST/RIC
· noun · firefighter
The firefighter rescue team standing by to save other firefighters.
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Firefighter Assist and Search Team / Rapid Intervention Crew. A dedicated team that stages outside a working fire doing nothing else but waiting to charge in and rescue any firefighter who gets trapped, lost, injured, or runs out of air inside. NFPA 1407 requires one on the scene of every structure fire. FAST is the FDNY/New York name; RIC (or RIT, Rapid Intervention Team) is the term used pretty much everywhere else. Same job, different patch.
“Don't pull the RIC for overhaul — if the second floor goes, we've got nobody left to come get us.”
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FAST/RIC In A Sentence
Don't pull the RIC for overhaul — if the second floor goes, we've got nobody left to come get us.
Origin & Usage
FAST is a Fire Department of New York (FDNY) designation; RIC/RIT spread nationally in the late 1990s following several high-profile LODDs and was codified in NFPA 1407 (2010).
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