Intro to SAR
Intro to Land Nav
SAR Resources
NIMS, FEMA, DHS
Search Tactics
Search Operations
Lost Persons Behavior
Search Philosophy
Clue Consciousness
100

To identify and locate persons who are or may become distresses or injured and are unable to return to a place of their own safety

What is Search?

100

This the ideal type of compass for SAR 

What is an Orienteering Compass?

100

This type of Technical Team includes: tidal, lakes, and swift water 

What is Water Rescue?

100

The definition of ICS. 

What is Incident Command System? 

100

The two categories of Search Tactics 

What are Indirect/ Passive and Direct/ Active? 

100

This form is used when checking into an incident

What is ICS 211? 

100

The two categories of data 

What are Planning Data and Search Data? 

100

True or False: A Search is NOT an Emergency 

What is FALSE? 

100

Objects or facts that may help solve a problem or mystery 

What is a Clue? 

200

To access, stabilize, and evacuate distressed or injured persons, by whatever means necessary 

What is rescue? 

200

This type of navigation uses observation of the sun, moon, stars, and planets

What is Celestial Navigation? 

200

This type of K9 is trained to follow a specific scent matching that of a scent generator 

What is a Tracking Canine? 

200

Resources awaiting active assignment 

What is Available?

200

Indirect Tactics are also known as what type of tactic? 

What is Passive? 

200

This type of brief is usually conducted by the Planning Section Chief and includes the major aspects of the search mission, the incident actions plan, and the incident objectives

What is a General Briefing? 

200

This category of "lost persons" include persons over the age of 65

What is Elderly? 

200

This is the distance that the subject could have traveled in the time elapsed 

What is Theoretical Search Area? 

200

Any evidence of change from the natural state that is inflicted on an environment by a person's or animal's passage 

What is Sign? 

300

The "L" in the LAST Acronym

What is Locate?

300

Global Positioning Systems are considered this type of navigation

What is Electronic Navigation? 

300

This resource provides rapid, on-site, assistance to law enforcement agencies and families in cases of missing, abducted, and exploited children 

What is the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children?

What is Team Adam? 

300

A combination of the same kind and type of resource with common communications and a leader

What is a Strike Team? 

300

Trailing Dogs are an example of this type of Tactic 

What is Direct/ Active 

300

This type of brief (usually given by the IC, Operational Section Chief, or Crew Leader) give you specific details of your assignment

What is a Tactical Brief? 

300

Small children, children, hunters, hikers, elderly, and miscellaneous make up this type of category 

What are Lost Person Categories? 

300

This is what LKP stands for

What is Last Known Point?

300

This type of weather condition can blow clues from the original location to another. This weather condition can also mask the sounds of someone calling for help or disperse a scent

What is Wind? 

400

This is the process of preparing for a SAR response ahead of time.

What is Preplanning? 

400

The bearing 0 degrees or 360 degrees points in which cardinal direction? 

What is North? 

400
What the acronym U-SAR stands for 

What is Urban- Search and Rescue 

400

A staffed area where helicopters may land, re-fuel, and be maintained 

What is a Helibase?

400

A technique involving efforts to confine the movement of a lost subject IOT minimize the size of the search area 

What is confinement/ containment? 

400

True or False: Your crew leader can sign out the entire crew when checking out

What is TRUE 

400

This data is uses to develop a strategy for finding the subject

What is Planning Data? 

400

This is what PLS stands for

What is Place Last Seen 

400

These are the two types of categories that exist for analytical clues

What are Sensory and Probable? 

500

The act of searching and finding the subject that is lost, misplaced or injured. 

What is Locate? 

500

This type of map shows maritime and coastal regions. Provides pilots of ships with information necessary to navigate on the waterways and safely avoid hazards that may hidden the water's surface

What are Nautical Charts? 

500

The three categories of SAR resources

What are

- Human/ Animal

-Informational 

- Equipment/ Tech 

500

The optimum ratio of individual to leaders (Span of Control) 

What is one to five? 

500

This involves calling the subject's attention to searchers.

What is attraction? 

500

This event occurs back at the staging area where the team will give quality feedback on what they saw and experienced during their time in the field

What is debrief? 

500

This data is any information that the searchers entering the search area must be made aware of, in order for them to locate as many clues as possible that belong to the subject being searched for

What is Search Data 

500

This is what POD stands for 

What is Probability of Detection? 
500

This is a multiple [age form containing questions that will help obtain information on the lost or missing person 

What is a Lost Person Questionnaire? 

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