Mounted search and rescue

[Kimberly Kelly <sarlady@yahoo.com>]

List:
   
  I was fortunate enough to use some of the original designs when they were 
first in design and production, back in 2003. Kenneth Dueker, the inventor, 
is a reserve law enforcement officer, and we attend many of the same 
conferences. After speaking with him, he sent me a whole set of them to try 
in a variety of settings.
   
  I did. 
   
  I ran over them with a car. On asphalt. On dirt. On a gravel road.
   
  I threw them, and yes, I throw like a girl, but still. I threw them again 
on roads. On hills. Into rocks. Into tree areas. Into water. No, not little 
puddles, but Lake Poway, and we (the dive team) dove for them (the fishies 
were intrigued by them). 
   
  I beat the heck out of them, and they continued to work.
   
  I got to keep my original set, and have used them constantly over the past 
years. I've used them at car accidents where I've been first on scene (not 
responding, but just driving by). I've also offered - and they were used - 
where other responders were there first, but were not visible to oncoming 
traffic. I've used them on missions in water settings, urban settings, and 
wilderness and desert settings. At times, they were the only thing we had, 
and other times, despite a variety of other options including road flares, we 
still used my flares (I had one blue, one white, and three red). Sometimes, 
it was the only thing we COULD use, because of fire danger or ecological 
settings.
   
  I've bought additional for myself, and have also bought the new, individual 
use flares for my dad, and for two other canine handlers.
   
  After all this time, the only complaint I could possibly come up with would 
be the bugger who stole two of them on a search two months ago. I'll still 
buy more.
   
  They are an awesome, awesome product. And just for the record, no, I don't 
work for Powerflare, I don't get paid for saying any of this, and I don't own 
stock in the company. I have no financial or other tie to the company. It's 
just a rockin' good product, and I like it, no, love it enough to say so.
   
  I love my Powerflares. 

                        
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MSAR-ASTM, the companion mailing list to MSAR-Riders, is formally
recognized as a task group under ASTM Committee F32 on Search and
Rescue.  At this time, the MSAR task group's work items are under
Subcommittee F32.02 on Management and Operations.  All of F32.02's
published standards and work items (draft standards and revisions
of published standards) are listed here:

http://www.astm.org/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/COMMIT/SUBCOMMIT/F3202.htm?L+memberstore+ooef3203+1100539500

F32.02 now has 19 published standards and 5 work items, including
2 directly relevant to MSAR:

WK7556  Standard Guide for Training of a Level I Mounted Searcher

WK8963  Standard Guide for Minimum Horsemanship Skills for a Level
I Mounted Searcher 


The total membership of F32 now is about 80.  To join F32, all you
have to do is send ASTM $75 per year.  For that, you get to vote,
you get a magazine subscription, and you get one volume (per year)
of ASTM standards as a book, CD, or online.  SAR and emergency
medicine together make up one volume, several hundred standards in
all.

The total membership of MSAR-ASTM now is about 150, including many
subscribers to this list, MSAR-Riders, and these members of ASTM
Committee F32:

Janet Besanceney
Chris Cooper
Sheila Daly
Virginia DeGiorgi
Jorene Downs
Tomi` Finkle
Tom Jensen
Porter Leslie
Irv Lichtenstein
Mike McDonald (chairman of subcommittee F32.02)
Terry Nowacki
Una Smith 
Ian Vowles

To join MSAR-ASTM, all you have to do is subscribe, just as for
MSAR-Riders.  But know that in an average month MSAR-ASTM gets 50
e-mails per week, far more than MSAR-Riders, and its topic is far
narrower.

Please see http://www.ibiblio.org/msar/msar-astm.html for details.

Hope this helps.

        Una Smith
        New Mexico