Intro to SAR
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?
This the ideal type of compass for SAR
What is an Orienteering Compass?
This type of Technical Team includes: tidal, lakes, and swift water
What is Water Rescue?
The definition of ICS.
What is Incident Command System?
The two categories of Search Tactics
What are Indirect/ Passive and Direct/ Active?
This form is used when checking into an incident
What is ICS 211?
The two categories of data
What are Planning Data and Search Data?
True or False: A Search is NOT an Emergency
What is FALSE?
Objects or facts that may help solve a problem or mystery
What is a Clue?
To access, stabilize, and evacuate distressed or injured persons, by whatever means necessary
What is rescue?
This type of navigation uses observation of the sun, moon, stars, and planets
What is Celestial Navigation?
This type of K9 is trained to follow a specific scent matching that of a scent generator
What is a Tracking Canine?
Resources awaiting active assignment
What is Available?
Indirect Tactics are also known as what type of tactic?
What is Passive?
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?
This category of "lost persons" include persons over the age of 65
What is Elderly?
This is the distance that the subject could have traveled in the time elapsed
What is Theoretical Search Area?
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?
The "L" in the LAST Acronym
What is Locate?
Global Positioning Systems are considered this type of navigation
What is Electronic Navigation?
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?
A combination of the same kind and type of resource with common communications and a leader
What is a Strike Team?
Trailing Dogs are an example of this type of Tactic
What is Direct/ Active
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?
Small children, children, hunters, hikers, elderly, and miscellaneous make up this type of category
What are Lost Person Categories?
This is what LKP stands for
What is Last Known Point?
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?
This is the process of preparing for a SAR response ahead of time.
What is Preplanning?
The bearing 0 degrees or 360 degrees points in which cardinal direction?
What is North?
What is Urban- Search and Rescue
A staffed area where helicopters may land, re-fuel, and be maintained
What is a Helibase?
A technique involving efforts to confine the movement of a lost subject IOT minimize the size of the search area
What is confinement/ containment?
True or False: Your crew leader can sign out the entire crew when checking out
What is TRUE
This data is uses to develop a strategy for finding the subject
What is Planning Data?
This is what PLS stands for
What is Place Last Seen
These are the two types of categories that exist for analytical clues
What are Sensory and Probable?
The act of searching and finding the subject that is lost, misplaced or injured.
What is Locate?
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?
The three categories of SAR resources
What are
- Human/ Animal
-Informational
- Equipment/ Tech
The optimum ratio of individual to leaders (Span of Control)
What is one to five?
This involves calling the subject's attention to searchers.
What is attraction?
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?
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
This is what POD stands for
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?