{"id":202916,"date":"2026-04-20T01:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202916\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:20:07","slug":"firefighters-across-western-new-york-sharpen-mayday-rescue-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202916\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters across Western New York sharpen mayday rescue skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters from across Western New York gathered in Getzville for an intense training focused on rescuing one of their own when everything goes wrong.<\/p>\n<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 Firefighters from across Western New York gathered in Getzville for a high-intensity training program focused on one critical mission: rescuing fellow firefighters in life-threatening emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>The Getzville Fire Company hosted its annual Rapid Intervention Training Course, a two-day program designed to prepare both paid and volunteer firefighters to respond when a mayday call is issued on the fire ground.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/news\/local\/buffalo-fire-department-investigating-suspicious-fire-on-clinton-street\/71-fb68d480-4687-48c1-849d-5d13346a382d\" class=\"cms__embed-related-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BFD investigating &#8216;suspicious&#8217; house fire on Clinton Street<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Organizers said the goal of the annual training is to ensure firefighters can react quickly and effectively when one of their own becomes trapped, pinned, injured or worse during an emergency response.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A mayday on the fire ground is one of the most chaotic scenarios that could possibly happen,&#8221; according to David Morales, the public information officer for the Getzville Fire Company. &#8220;We need to be able to take care of not only the victims of a fire but also our own when they get trapped or pinned or injured or even worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The course includes realistic drills based on incidents that led to firefighter deaths. Training scenarios cover fire development, search and rescue operations, collapse situations and emergency air procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters from across Western New York gathered in Getzville for an intense training focused on rescuing one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-202916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}