Search and Rescue - Search Types
REMEMBER - SEARCH FOR CLUES, NOT THE SUBJECT!!!
Search and rescue consists of teamwork, training, and practice.
All search and rescue activities must be safety and subject oriented. All searchers entering the search area must be prepared to survive on their own, search for the lost subject, navigate over varied terrain, communicate with other searchers, direct assistance to your position, and assist in first aid and extraction of the subject.
Searchers never travel alone. Survival outdoors depends on being prepared, having knowledge of the outdoors, proper equipment, and a positive attitude.
Searching requires skills learned through search and rescue training, practice of these skills, and carrying the recommended gear.
Navigating requires a map, compass, placing survey tape, being constantly aware of landforms, practice and more practice.
Communication requires using a radio or whistle, keeping contact with the Command Post, and trying to signal the subject by continually calling or hollering the subject’s name. Teams should be scattered about the search area to provide immediate assistance to any area.
