Mounted search and rescue

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

An additional clarification for NIMS compliance is regarding personnel 
meeting national standards. There is a current requirement for EMAC / any 
interstate Mutual Aid response for the responders to meet national standards 
for that type of response. (For those not familiar with EMAC, see 
http://www.emacweb.org/ )

For ground SAR interstate response, that would mean meeting ASTM F2209 
requirements. (www.astm.org ) An example of training and testing meeting 
ASTM F2209 requirements is NASAR SARTECH II, or any equivalent program.

The ASTM national / international standards for Mounted SAR are in progress, 
but it appears very likely that ASTM F2209 will be included as a 
prerequisite for MSAR to meet USA national standards.

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