Rapid Intervention Team Exercises (ZRITE)
“Rapid Intervention Team Exercises” (ZRITE) - offered as a 16-hour course teaching personnel the skills
necessary to locate and remove firefighters who become lost or trapped during structural firefighting
operations. This class was formally “Rapid Intervention Crew Exercises” (RICE) that was rewritten to
maintain stride with the latest and most popular firefighter rescue techniques. Students perform
physically demanding exercises during drills and rescue scenarios such as breathing apparatus