| Urban Search & Rescue:
Following a major disaster, your community or workplace may be on their own for 72 hours or more. This program combines hands-on learning and classroom instruction to prepare community members or employees to conduct basic urban search and rescue (USAR) activities in a safe and effective manner as part of a neighbourhood or workplace team.
Ground Search Team Leader:
This course will provide trained GSAR volunteers with the knowledge and practical team leader skills necessary to safely and effectively plan, organize, lead, supervise and execute a ground search and rescue team assignment.
Avalanche Response:
The Avalanche Response Team provides participants with the skills necessary to safely respond to avalanche incidents as part of an inter-agency team in potentially unstable terrains.
Rope Rescue:
The course introduces the participants to organized rope rescue standards, the rescue cycle, the forces involved, gear, communications and rope inspection practices. There is three days of formal instruction; 20 hours of unit training; three days of evaluation. This course prepares the member for slope and high angle top down rope rescue techniques.
SAR Management:
The course presents the organization of SAR in BC and the role of the SAR manager within this structure. Pre-plans, stages of a response, ICS roles, documentation, interviewing, investigation, team callout and lost person behaviour are introduced. SAR management principles, search theory and probability as well as working with the media and risk assessment are covered.
Track Aware:
Three days instruction in the art of identifying sign of human presence and following that sign with the ultimate goal of finding the missing person.
Swift water Rescue Training:
Three days of instruction in self and subject rescue techniques, in moving water environments classified as low to high risk
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