If two firefighters in full gear (about 600 lbs combined) are at the tip and a 250-lb rescue victim is added in a basket rated for 1,000 lbs, the operator must:

1. Ignore equipment weight
2. Add gear, tools, and any waterway/water to the live load and verify the total does not exceed the basket and tip load ratings for the current configuration
3. Increase rotation speed
4. Skip the load chart for rescue operations