Alachua County Fire Rescue Reserves
Combined Special Response Teams
Search and Rescue Bivouac
03,04FEB2007

Synopsis
Simulate actual lost person incident command operations in multi-day lost person search and rescue scenarios within a genuine wilderness environment utilizing combined special response teams.

Objectives
Train and evaluate incident command and search strategy for SAR in a Type II/Type III urban to wilderness environment. Enhance practiced coordination so that an actual SAR event may be responded to as a special teams single combined resource.

Participants (invitees)
Alachua County Fire Rescue Reserves
Bike Team, K9 Team, Communications Team, Rehabilitation Unit, A,B,C Shift medics RACES, Emergency Management Communications HAMS Alachua County Citizens Emergency Response Team (CERT) Civil Air Patrol, Gainesville Composite Squadron Levy County Search (CERT) Gainesville Police Dept, Alachua Sheriff’s Office Shared Aviation Unit

Location
Lochloosa Wildlife Conservation Area, Cross Creek, Florida
Base Camp: Burnt Island Fishing Pier

Concepts and Principles of Wilderness Search and Rescue
Multiple Agency Incident Command
Search Strategy
Man Tracking and Evidence Detection / Preservation
Personal and SAR Team Safety
Compass Navigation and Orienteering
Search Map Reading and Rendering
Hasty and Area Search
Field Communications / Ground to Aircraft Communications

Tactical Scenarios and Exercises
03FEB07, Missing Wilderness Alzheimer’s Patient (Probability of Detection >60%)
0930 to 0945 Briefing
0945 to 1245 Hasty Search, determine last known point
Area Search based upon last know point
Mark and map man tracking evidence on rendered search map
Locate and treat/stabilize victim/patient, extricate
Debrief
1330 to 1430 SAR K9 Short Problems
1500 to 1700 Establish helipad for ASO/GPD aviation unit
Establish ground to air communications, guide to UTM coordinates
Short lecture after landing, LZ dos and don’ts
1830 to 2130 Night navigation

04FEB07, Overdue Family Campers (Probability of Detection >85%)
0930 to 0945 Briefing
1000 to 1500 Hasty Search, determine last known point
Area Search based upon last know point
Mark and map man tracking evidence on rendered search map
Locate and treat/stabilize victim/patient, extricate
Debrief
1500 Break base camp

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