Lost Person Profiles
Children aged 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 or even terrain?
Limiting the search area means it takes less time to search, as well as less of these.
What are searchers?
A logbook that tracks the visitors to a national park is an example of this type of clue.
What is a recorded clue?
The term for the initial search of an area, conducted in order to find the before they can move far.
What is a hasty search?
Children in this age range usually have no real concept of being "lost"
What is age 1 - 3?
Poor physical condition may put a lost person at a greater risk of this cold-driven ailment
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 type of clue.
Cave SAR often requires unique approaches because it takes place in these kinds of areas.
What are enclosed, difficult to navigate spaces?
This type of person will often not respond to their name.
What is a person with an intellectual disability/ someone 6 - 12
These are all examples of medical issues that may impact a lost person's behaviour. (Name 2)
What is a weak heart, diabetes, allergies, or missing medications?
A method of confinement that involves clearing all traces of use from a section of trail or road.
Searchers should be careful to evaluate clues to ensure that they are this.
What is relevant (not old, weathered, etc.)
Canine SAR units locate lost persons when conventional tracking methods fail, by using what?
What are their acute senses?
This consideration may cause detection by yelling 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 large impact on their ability to survive.
What is their personality?
Aerial search has largely removed the need for this confinement method, but it still has its uses.
What are lookouts?
All information gathered from clues is reported to this person.
What is the SAR Leader?
Rope rescue requires specialised training in these types of systems used for rescue operations.
What are Rope-and-Pulley systems?
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 behaviour of a lost person.
What is he reason a person is lost in the first place?
The recommended height of a string line used to confine a search area.
What is 1 meter? (3 feet)
Search party members should avoid doing this when preparing to gather clues and information.
What is forming an opinion beforehand?
In a grid search, each segment of the search area is assigned one of these, also called a POA.
What is a Probability Area?