Lost Person Profiles
Children age 3 - 6 will generally do this when tired.
What is look for a place to sleep?
This type of terrain typically means a lost person can travel much farther.
What is flat terrain?
Limiting a search area means both less time and less _______ required to search it.
What are searchers?
A logbook that tracks the visitors to a national park every day is an example of this type of clue.
What is a Recorded clue?
The initial search of an area, conducted in order to find the person before they can move far.
Children in this age range usually have no real concept of being "lost"
What is 1 - 3 years old?
What is hypothermia?
The process of establishing a perimeter that the lost person is unlikely to cross without being detected.
What is confinement?
The point at which a lost person was last seen is an example of this kind of clue.
What is a People clue?
Cave SAR often requires unique approaches because it takes place in these kind of areas.
What are enclosed, difficult to navigate spaces.
This type of lost person will often not respond to their name.
What is a person with an intellectual disability?
These are all examples of medical issues that may affect a person's behavior.
What are a weak heart, diabetes, allergies, or missing medication?
Searchers should be careful to evaluate physical clues to ensure that they are ______.
What is relevant? (Not weathered, dirty, etc.)
Canine SAR units use their acute ______ to locate lost persons when conventional tracking methods fall short.
What are senses? (Smell)
This consideration may cause detection to be a problem when dealing with older lost persons.
What is deafness?
This characteristic of a person, be it aggressive, ponderous, or pessimistic, has a substantial effect on their ability to survive.
What is their personality?
Aerial search has largely removed the need for this kind of confinement, but it still has its uses.
What are lookouts?
All information gathered from clues must be reported to this person.
What is the SAR leader?
Rope rescue requires specialized training in these types of systems used for rescue operations.
What is a rope-and-pulley system?
A type of hiking technique to ascend a slope, that often leads to hikers getting lost.
What is a switchback?
The most important clue to predicting the behavior of a lost person.
The recommended height of a String Line used to confine a search area.
What is one meter (three feet)?
Search party members should avoid doing this when preparing to gather clues and information.
What is forming an opinion beforehand and searching for clues to support it?
In a grid search, each segment of the search area is assigned one, also called a POA.
What is a Probability of Area?