Rapid Intervention Safety and Command
The Fire Service History blog has an interesting post about the Secret Service's Rapid Intervention Safety and Command unit.
RISC is a highly trained and dedicated team of secret service agents that work in and around the White House. The folks on this team respond to chemical, biological and radiological threats; fire hazards; physical entrapments and other life-threatening emergencies.
Here is an article from the National Fire & Rescue web site about the formation of this unit (about 1/3 of the way down the page).
Apparently, there was some controversy about the creation of this new unit, but it sounds to me like it is just another tool in the toolbox.
Posted June 29, 2006 09:13 AM · Link
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