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In ICS, this is the process of accomplishing the organization's goals through the use of people and resources.
What is management
These are the five major functions in ICS.
What are Incident Commander, Planning, Operations, Logistics, and Finance?
FOG 2.4 / FunSar 39-40
In ICS, this function is responsible for the Incident Objectives.
Who is the Incident Commander?
FOG 2.3 / FunSar 42
Investigations is typically a member of this section in ICS.
What is the Planning Section?
FOG 4.2
These are the main components / functions of the Incident Command System.
What is management by objectives, IAP, continuity and chain of command, organizational flexibility, unified command / management structure, modular organization, common terminology, integrated communications, comprehensive resource management.
FunSar 40-58
This is a number of search resources of the same type, functioning under a single leader.
What is a Strike Team.
FOG M.9 / FunSar 54
These are the status conditions for resources on-scene.
What is available, assigned, and out of service.
FOG 4.14
This document should contain contact names and phone numbers of available resources.
What is the pre-plan.
These are the benefits of the operational pre-plan.
What is establishes chain of command during an incident, identifies training needs, prevents overlooking something?
This is why written MOA's are preferred to verbal agreements.
What are specific agency duties and responsibilities can be documented?
An annotated map of prior SAR events in an area can aid planners by........
What is prioritizing the search segments.
This is one of the differences between a Trailing K9 and an Area K9.
What is Area K9's can be assigned to a specific segment.
FunSar 267
These are small groups of highly mobile, clue-sensitive searchers.
What is a hasty team?
FOG 1.23, 1.24, 3.2, 3.4
These are limitations of grid searching.
What is it sacrifices efficiency for thoroughness, it requires many more searchers per unit of area searched?
FOG 3.7
This type of information can be described as planning data.
What is weather and route victim took?
FOG M.6
When determining the search urgency, these are the factors that may directly influence the well being of the subject.
What is weather, terrain, victim's equipment, and subject profile?
FOG 1.2, 1.3
When determining Search Urgency on the scale of 1 to 21, this number is the most urgent.
What is 1?
FOG 1.2, 1.3
This information should be included in Incident Objectives.
What is S.M.A.R.T. (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and referenced)?
FOG 2.3
The search for a small child who is frightened of searchers will most likely represent this lost person scenario.
What is mobile and unresponsive?
FOG 2.1
Theory / Mathematics used to estimate the likelihood of uncertain events is called this.
What is Probability Theory?
FOG M.6
The equation for Probability of Success.
What is POD X POA = POS
FOG M.6
Probabilities are used to aid decisions regarding these.
What are Priority of Resources, establishment of search area priorities, and suspension of the search?
This is when the investigation should begin and end.
What is immediately and continue until the person is located.
FOG 5.1
These types of lost persons tend to be the most difficult to detect.
What are despondent and young children.
FOG 1.6
The statistical measure of the distance traveled by lost persons which divides the data category into the two equal portions of 50% at or above and 50% at or below.
What is the median distance?
FOG 1.19
An evaluation of hunches about where the subject might go based on the limiting factors in the incident describes this type of search.
What is subjective?
FOG 1.18
This is the definition of Probability of Area (POA).
What is the probability that the subject is in a segment or region?
FOG M.6
The "Consensus Approach" refers to a method of establishing this.
What is the relative likelihood of the person's presence in a segment?
FOG 4.6
This would make a good segment boundary.
What is natural boundaries (handrails)?
These are reason's a search is an emergency.
What is the subject may need emergency medical care, time and weather destroy clues, and a quick response lessens the search difficulty?
FOG i / FunSar 317-318
Regarding search tactics, this is how the area surrounding the PLS should be searched.
What is thoroughly and early in the mission?
FunSar 321
This is the best resource to use for establishing the subject's direction of travel while sign-cutting.
What is a man tracker?.
FunSar 261
These are passive (indirect) search tactics.
What is confinement and trail block?
FunSar 343
This is a problem with over estimating POD.
What is bias search away from areas that may contain the subject?
This is the cumulative POD for a segment that was searched by three independent teams with POD's of 40%, 50%, and 65%
What is 90%
FOG 4.7
These are how briefings should be conducted.
What is oral or written, depending on the size of the operation.
FunSar 361
This is the ICS document that describes contingencies in the event of an injury to a searcher.
What is ICS 206 Medical Plan?
This is the most common reason the subject is not found early in the search.
What is the subject is outside the search area and it was not adequately expanded?
This is an alternative to suspending all search activities when a subject is not found.
What is a limited, continuing search.
FOG M.4
This is the area where available search resources are temporarily located prior to deployment.
What is Staging.
FunSar 45
This is the stress experienced by emergency responders.
What is Critical Incident Stress?
These are external influences during a search incident.
What is media, family, and political entities?
This is an electronic device that receives satellite signals for navigational purposes.
What is a GPS?
FunSar 247
This is the intent of the After Action Review.
What is mission critique, identify areas of the preplan that can be improved, and determine why and how the search occurred?
FunSar 371
This describes the two modes of searches.
What is Active - go and find the subject, and Passive - make the victim come to you?
FunSar 343-346
These are the main factors affecting the urgency of a search mission.
What is subject profile, weather, equipment, and terrain?
FOG 1.2 - 1.3
This is why an analysis of Lost Person Behavior is important.
What is it allows you to predict where your missing subject might go, where they might be, and what they may do?
FunSar 332
When referring to lost person behavior, this is what we know about the "Climbers" category.
Who is well equipped, self sufficient, and tend to follow a designated route?
FOG 1.13
These are the 4 methods of establishing the probable search area.
What is Theoretical, Statistical, Subjective, and Deductive?
FOG 1.16 - 1.17
This is why we segment a search area.
What is to assure complete search coverage?
FunSar 323
When segmenting a search area, doing this will assure you get complete coverage.
What is well defined bounderies.
FunSar 323
POD explained in simple terms.
What is "If there were 100 items sought within the search area, how many would the search effort have found."
Multiple coverage POD values are computed to determine this.
What is how effective and thorough the search has been?
This is when a search effort would be suspended or transitioned to limited, continuous.
What is when high cumulative POD's are obtained for immobile/unresponsive subjects.
This is the missing person behavior for elderly persons.
What is they are often suffering from dementia type symptoms, easily attracted by something that strikes their fancy, they are orientated to past environments rather than the present.
FOG 1.9