Brandon Cory
Brandon is second generation firefighter and has been a student of the fire service since 2010. Brandon started as a volunteer firefighter working his way up to Lieutenant before leaving that department to pursue a full-time opportunity. Currently he is a senior firefighter for the City of Marquette in the U.P. of Michigan. He is also the training officer for the counties special rescue team. Brandon is Michigan’s state lead advocate for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. Brandon has published articles for FireRescue1 on Firefighter Survival and RIT. Also has been published a chapter in the book 30 Fires You Must Know. He has taught at FireHouse Expo and other conferences around the Nation. Brandon is also Vice President of Great Lakes Hot, Michigan’s Premier fire conference. He has an associate’s degree and holds certifications in a wide range in the fire and EMS world from the state of Michigan and Illinois. Brandon Lives in the UP of Michigan where he was born and raised. He is married to his wife Jamie and has one daughter. Brandon is passionate about training and helping others become the best firefighter they are and continues to look for own continued growth and knowledge professionally and personal.
Brandon Cory's Courses
This class will go over the history of RIT, RIT Team set up, Proactive vs Reactive, psychological and physiological effects, training, basic RIT skills, firefighter survival skills, stress response, and mindset.
In this class students will go over down firefighter assessment and packaging, drags and movement, search techniques, air management, air emergency mitigation, and firefighter survival skills. The students will then put all the skills together for scenarios.
March 13th of 2020 Captain Ben Lauren of the Forsyth Volunteer Fire Department paid the ultimate sacrifice and lost his life during a structure fire. The instructor was involved in the incident as Part of the RIT team. This class will go over the incident from start to finish. Giving all details of what happened before, during, and after the Mayday call.
This class will build off the RIT Basics class and give the students more knowledge and skills to better them as a RIT team member. It will build off the basics and add different type of major rescues a RIT team could face. Skills will include search skills, large area search, management of a down firefighter, removals of a down firefighter, lifting objects off a down firefighter, air management, air emergency mitigation and stress management. Students will then put these skill together and do scenarios.
This class will go over different Mayday and LODD incidents to dig deep into them and go over what happened during the call and what form of rescue took place. Students will learn the importance of having skilled technicians on RIT teams over just anyone on the fireground to just fill a check box. Structural collapse, major fire events, and other major events will be talked about and how as RIT teams we can manage these types of activations.
Not all departments have the ability to assign a RIT crew from their initial response from their own department be it volunteer or full time.