On February 4th, FRITA and the Belize National Fire Service concluded our 5th annual training deployment. Over the five days of training we delivered a program focused on Structural Collapse, Technical Rope Rescue, Emergency Medical Response, Incident Command, and Hazardous Materials Response. Our six person team had four members from British Columbia, one from Winnipeg, and one from St Johns, Newfoundland. A truly Canadian coast to coast representation on this FRITA deployment.

As always, thanks go out to our hosts at the Belize National Fire Service for all the work they put in each year, to our partners at the British Army Training Support Unit Belize (BATSUB) who continue to house all our instructors and the 25 course participants, as well as providing classroom and field work space, and to the Belize Defense Force for use of facilities for both training and exercises.

Check out the final video on our Facebook page found on the far right of this website.

Fire Rescue International Training Association is proud to announce the completion of our inaugural deployment to San Luis, Antioquia, Colombia. We had a five-person team; 2 members from British Columbia, 2 from Pickering (Ontario) and 1 from Quebec, deliver a five-day training program that covered training topics such as; Auto Extrication; Wildland Firefighting, Emergency Medical Response; Incident Command; Technical Rope Rescue.

Special thanks to our hosts for their warm welcome and the logistics and planning they put in to make the deployment successful. We look forward to building on this relationship for future deployments.