Team
3-5 people
What is the minimum number of people on a search and rescue team?
Where someone - who can positively identify the subject - ACTUALLY saw the subject.
What is the Place Last Seen (PLS)?
Method to keep Command updated on Status
What is Radio Communications?
A meeting regarding what to do, what to expect, and what is known about the subject.
What is a briefing?
Overall Responsibility for Team
What is the Crew Lead?
Look up, down, through, and around.
What are search tactics?
The first team deployed during a search to look quickly and accurately for clues.
What is a hasty team?
Challenging weather, slippery surfaces, and poisonous plants.
What are likely hazards of Search and Rescue?
The specific term for the person to be found
What is the Subject?
team member positioned at the edge of a search area, responsible for marking the search line
What is a Flagger?
Hasty: rapid and systematic
Secondary: slow and methodical
What are search methods?
Incident Commander, Safety Officer, Operations Section Chief, Planning Section Chief, and Logistics Section Chief.
What are roles in Incident Command System (ICS)?
Safety Glasses, Gloves, Sturdy Boots, Reflective Vests. Weather appropriate clothing
What is personal protective equipment each member needs?
Searches are either a:
What is a missing person or what is an Evidence or Clue Search?
The team member responsible for victim stabilization and triage.
What is the member who is most medically trained?
How far team members may be spaced apart and still search effectively
What is Critical Separation? "Raindance"
Where all personal gear, tools, PPE and equipment is kept
What is 24 hour pack or Go bag?
Person responsible for overall incident safety?
What is the Incident Commander? (Safety Officer)
Factors may include subject's medical condition, outdoor experience, equipment they may be carrying, and weather conditions.
What is Evaluating Search Urgency?
Middle team members
What are purposeful wanderers?
refers to the geographical region where a missing person is most likely to be located based on available information
What is the area of probability?
anything that may be associated with a lost or missing person
What is a clue?