Mounted search and rescue

["Jorene Downs" <Jorene@CEOates.com>]

From: "irvin lichtenstein" <ilichten1@verizon.net>
> Many SAR organizations are spontaneous and
> disappear after a massive search for a missing child or similar high
> visibility case. We are trying to move towards long term viability
> everywhere and written performance standards are a first step.

Nationwide, a Citizen Corps Council is supposed to exist in every 
operational area. Citizen Corps is tasked with developing a method and 
processing spontaneous volunteers during a disaster, providing initial 
resource management to coordinate placement of those volunteers where there 
has been a request for resources. Commonly there is a Volunteer Skills 
Inventory form of some kind.

This same approach can be used in SAR, collaborating with the local Citizen 
Corps Council ... or whatever name it goes by locally - check with your 
office of emergency services. Develop a Volunteer Skills Inventory and 
processes suitable for SAR, and at a larger incident ask Citizen Corps to 
provide personnel to provide staff to manage that process.

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Jorene Downs
Tulare Co SAR - Hasty Team ICP Team
www.ceoates.com/sar
Tulare-Kings CERT
www.tk-cert.org