SAR TECH III QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS MARKED A+
✔✔ Lost Person Behavior (LPB) data provides search planners with general indications
of the following with the exception of - ✔✔How quickly they will be located by trained
searchers
✔✔Clues and evidence should be - ✔✔reported and processed following AHJ SOGs
and properly documented and secured in a food grade plastic storage bag
✔✔Smelling smoke from a campfire when looking for a pair of missing hikers or finding
a small toy during a search for a child are what type of clues? - ✔✔Physical
✔✔Who is responsible for establishing a "safety first" mindset during search
operations? - ✔✔The Safety Officer
✔✔The National SAR Committee (NSARC) is responsible for coordinating and
improving federal involvment in civil search and rescue. Its member agencies include
the following agences: - ✔✔The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The Department of Defence
The Department of Interior
Federal Communications Commission
The Department of Commerce
✔✔The LPQ, maps, statistical data, weather reports, theoretical and search data are
considered - ✔✔Planning Data
✔✔Search planners use the subject behavioral profile for a number of reasons: -
✔✔Determining search strategy
defining the search area
estimating resource needs
mapping the search area
briefing search teams
✔✔A Search Urgency Form - ✔✔justifies the initial actions such as performing
additional investigation or calling out search resources
✔✔POD Estimates, Map or Trail updates that might be needed, hazard areas not
included in the safety briefing, thoughts and impressions from the team members - ✔✔A
complete debriefing of a team when they return from a task is critical to understanding
how how well they were able to search their area. A good debriefing should include all
of the following.
, ✔✔Notification of a search assignment to the search team, and notification of a search
assignment to the team members - ✔✔Notification of a search is separated into the
following categories
✔✔Indirect - ✔✔a loose grid is what type of search tactic
✔✔direct them to the agency having jurisdiction - ✔✔when approached by the media,
searchers should
✔✔Local law enforcement and OEM - ✔✔search and Rescue response at the local
level is coordinated by
✔✔ideally a search segment should be - ✔✔easily identifiable on both a map and the
ground
✔✔Experienced, Well Equipped, Highly Mobile, clue conscious, through - ✔✔Hasty or
efficient searchers
✔✔The incident commander - ✔✔the general briefing is critical to creating a common
operational picture of the incident. This briefing is usually conducted by
✔✔drive changes in training, equipment, material - ✔✔A thorough critique or After
Action Review is a critical component of all aspects of emergency response. A critique
may help managers
✔✔In Service - ✔✔Resources at an incident will be one of the following
✔✔Last Known Point (LKP) - ✔✔is defined as the last place the subject is verifiably
known to have been.
✔✔Point Last Seen (PLS) - ✔✔the location at which someone can confirm that the
subject was visually identified.
✔✔Initial Planning Point (IPP) - ✔✔is considered the starting point at which initial
assessment and decisions can be ascertained.
✔✔Information - ✔✔items below are not a category of SAR resources
✔✔201 - ✔✔On arrival the searcher should sign in using the ICS-_____ form.
✔✔Air Scent Canines - ✔✔detect the scent of "human rafts" (dead human skin cells) as
they float through the air. These dogs generally do not discriminate from one scent
generator to another. These dogs are usually worked off lead. Air scent dogs are
extremely useful in
✔✔ Lost Person Behavior (LPB) data provides search planners with general indications
of the following with the exception of - ✔✔How quickly they will be located by trained
searchers
✔✔Clues and evidence should be - ✔✔reported and processed following AHJ SOGs
and properly documented and secured in a food grade plastic storage bag
✔✔Smelling smoke from a campfire when looking for a pair of missing hikers or finding
a small toy during a search for a child are what type of clues? - ✔✔Physical
✔✔Who is responsible for establishing a "safety first" mindset during search
operations? - ✔✔The Safety Officer
✔✔The National SAR Committee (NSARC) is responsible for coordinating and
improving federal involvment in civil search and rescue. Its member agencies include
the following agences: - ✔✔The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The Department of Defence
The Department of Interior
Federal Communications Commission
The Department of Commerce
✔✔The LPQ, maps, statistical data, weather reports, theoretical and search data are
considered - ✔✔Planning Data
✔✔Search planners use the subject behavioral profile for a number of reasons: -
✔✔Determining search strategy
defining the search area
estimating resource needs
mapping the search area
briefing search teams
✔✔A Search Urgency Form - ✔✔justifies the initial actions such as performing
additional investigation or calling out search resources
✔✔POD Estimates, Map or Trail updates that might be needed, hazard areas not
included in the safety briefing, thoughts and impressions from the team members - ✔✔A
complete debriefing of a team when they return from a task is critical to understanding
how how well they were able to search their area. A good debriefing should include all
of the following.
, ✔✔Notification of a search assignment to the search team, and notification of a search
assignment to the team members - ✔✔Notification of a search is separated into the
following categories
✔✔Indirect - ✔✔a loose grid is what type of search tactic
✔✔direct them to the agency having jurisdiction - ✔✔when approached by the media,
searchers should
✔✔Local law enforcement and OEM - ✔✔search and Rescue response at the local
level is coordinated by
✔✔ideally a search segment should be - ✔✔easily identifiable on both a map and the
ground
✔✔Experienced, Well Equipped, Highly Mobile, clue conscious, through - ✔✔Hasty or
efficient searchers
✔✔The incident commander - ✔✔the general briefing is critical to creating a common
operational picture of the incident. This briefing is usually conducted by
✔✔drive changes in training, equipment, material - ✔✔A thorough critique or After
Action Review is a critical component of all aspects of emergency response. A critique
may help managers
✔✔In Service - ✔✔Resources at an incident will be one of the following
✔✔Last Known Point (LKP) - ✔✔is defined as the last place the subject is verifiably
known to have been.
✔✔Point Last Seen (PLS) - ✔✔the location at which someone can confirm that the
subject was visually identified.
✔✔Initial Planning Point (IPP) - ✔✔is considered the starting point at which initial
assessment and decisions can be ascertained.
✔✔Information - ✔✔items below are not a category of SAR resources
✔✔201 - ✔✔On arrival the searcher should sign in using the ICS-_____ form.
✔✔Air Scent Canines - ✔✔detect the scent of "human rafts" (dead human skin cells) as
they float through the air. These dogs generally do not discriminate from one scent
generator to another. These dogs are usually worked off lead. Air scent dogs are
extremely useful in
