Search Exercise Planners Handbook
This series of posts outlines some of my thoughts on how to improve the way ALSAR Units, and other SAR teams searching for vulnerable missing persons, run missing person search exercises. Introduction and Search Exercise Objectives Selecting an Area for the Search Exercise Practical Aspects of Running a Search Exercise Terrain Analysis for Search Exercises [...]
December 3, 2009
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Tags: Briefing, Debriefing, Running a Search Exercise, Search Exercise, Search Exercise Objectives, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Exercise Scenarios, Terrain Analysis for Search Exercises · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
Search exercise planners handbook – Part Seven
Briefings Out of necessity search exercises require two briefings. When it suits the exercise the first “exercise” briefing can be given to everyone attending all at once, with the “scenario” briefing being given to just the Search Management Team to allow them to brief the teams as they want. If the exercise is intended to [...]
December 1, 2009
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Tags: Briefing, Health and Safety, Search Control, Search Exercise, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Management, Search Scenario, Search Training · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
Instructor Training for Emergency Response & Search & Rescue
Gary is running an Instructors course based around his book “Emergency Response & Search & Rescue”. UK – INSTRUCTOR We have some Level 3i – Instructor / Leader courses are planned from the book and at the present time all three offered days are popular: Wed 25, Fri 27 and Sat 28 Nov 2009. If [...]
November 13, 2009
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Tags: Briefing, De-briefing, Emergency Response & Search & Rescue, Incident Management, Instructor Course, SAR Co-ordination, SAR Disciplines, SAR Flow Cycle, SAR Instructor, SAR Leader, SAR Theory, USAR · Posted in: Search Books, Search Courses, Search Thoughts, Search Training
Emergency Response & Search & Rescue by Gary Foo
This new book seems to have aroused a lot of interest, certainly here in the UK, but also abroad too. It seemed appropriate then to write a quick review of the book. The book covers a vast amount of ground in its 300 plus pages. It starts with a round-up of the different SAR disciplines, [...]
November 13, 2009
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Tags: Briefing, Callout, De-briefing, Emergency Response, Emergency Response & Search & Rescue, Gary Foo, International SAR, Lost Person Behavior, Lost Person Behaviour, Mountain Bikes, Mounted SAR, Navigation, SAR, SAR Command, SAR Medicine, SAR Operations, SAR Vehicles, Search Dogs, Search Patterns, Search Theory, Team Roles · Posted in: Search Books, Search Thoughts
