Search Incident Planning Section Chief What percentage of searches are resolved during the initial...

Search Incident Planning Section Chief

What percentage of searches are resolved during the initial Operational

Period?

97%


So what happens when the search goes into multiple OperationalPeriods?


• Do you do more of the same?

• Do you call in additional resources?

• How do you organize?


• Do you call in an Incident Management Team?

• How do you transition to that team?

• How does an Incident Management Team plan?


• How do you decide what strategies to employ?

• What planning tools do you use?

• How do you brief searchers?


• How do you debrief searchers?

• How does investigation fit in to your search effort?


To answer your questions…


Paul AndersonNational Park Service, Retired

Sgt. Aaron DickSAR Coordinator, Coconino County Sheriff ’s Dept., Arizona

David LovelockProfessor of Mathematics (retired),University of Arizona Tucson

Greg StilesNational Park Service, Retired


Search ManagementPrinciples

Current IncidentManagement Practice

• PointLast Seen


Chapters include…• The Planning Function in the Initial Response• Organizing and Managing the Planning Section• Tracking Incident Resources• Investigation• Scenario Analysis• Analyzing Information as the Core of Search Planning

(several chapters)• Developing and Selecting Incident Strategy• The Planning Process – A Framework for Incident

Management


Chapters include…• The Incident Action Plan• Briefing: Communicating the Plan• Debriefing: Documenting Results• Documenting the Incident• The Planning Function Role in Suspending the

Incident• Demobilization: Getting Everyone Home Safely• Summary of the Planning Function


Other features include…

• A Sample Delegation of Authority• Lost Person Data• Search Urgency Rating Chart• Planning Section Chief Kit Information• ICS Forms• SAR Map Symbols• Job Action Sheets• SAR Glossary


Information about available resources …

• Mapping Software• GPS Tracking• Unmanned Aerial Systems• High Resolution

Photography as a Search Methodology• Cell Phone Information


Book serves as the foundation for a course entitled



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NOTHING!


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