Overview:
This is an advanced course, with multiple prerequisites. This course is developed to advance knowledgeable, trained searchers and search managers to the next level. It is designed to teach leadership principals and critical thinking and decision making skills. It offers SAR leadership the ability to see both the micro and macro aspects of an operation and to determine the best and safest way to use their team and assets in a safe, ‘round-trip-ticket’, effective SAR situation where every resource returns from the mission safely.
Objectives:
- Prepares the student to challenge the NASAR SARTECH I / Crew Leader examination.
- Provide tools for the student to function as a SAR field team leader
- Teaches the ‘Round Trip Ticket’ concept
- Provide the next level of information, skills, and tactics for the SAR professional or volunteer.
- What to do when you find a missing child who may have been or discloses being abused.
- Chain of custody for evidence
- Transfer of care for a victim/patient
- SAR incident profiling tools
- Learn/practice briefing and debriefing skills
- Team/crew safety
- Team development
- Advanced mapping skills
- Physical and mental fitness
- SAR dog tactics
- Hazardous terrain crossing
- Stress management
Who should attend:
Persons who will act in rolls of leadership as the field team leader or any person above this level who acts in any roll of incident commander or command staff or managers.
Hours: 21 hrs
Prerequisites:
- HAZMAT Awareness or above (current)
- Swift Water Awareness or above (current)
- Wilderness First Aid or above (current)– No ‘basic’ level courses; (accepted: Wilderness First Aid (WFA), Advanced WFA, Medical First Responder, Wilderness First Responder (WFR), EMT-B, EMT-Wilderness, EMT-P, MD, or other Wilderness Medicine as pre-approved).
- CPR and AED (current-Health Care Provider recommended)
- SARTECH II (No less than 12 months)
- FEMA IS-10a (Animals in Disaster-awareness and preparedness)
- FEMA IS-11a (Animals in Disaster – Community planning)
- FEMA IS-100 (Introduction to Incident Command)
- FEMA IS-200 (Incident Command for Single Resources & Initial Action…)
- FEMA IS-700 (National Incident Management System, an Introduction)
- FEMA IS-800 (National Response Framework, an Introduction)
- FEMA IS-809 (Emergency Support Function #9 – Search and Rescue)
- No less than 1 year active membership with a recognized SAR organization.
- No less than 25 hours on SAR missions.
- Letter of recommendation from your SAR team Management or someone who has supervised your work in a SAR environment, (I.E. Team Leader, Team Commander, EMA Official, Sheriff, etc).
