Mounted search and rescue

[Marie Lester <marie.lester@gmail.com>]

Much of this seems to apply to what you are trying to do----set standards with coordination of similarly trained resources as an end goal.

BTW, I hope that card did not offend you tonight.  Honestly, I bought it ages ago with no one in mind, and time has a way of letting go of past angst.   Despite the fact that Barb thought it was fine, I was worried about it but time was scarce in terms of replacing it with something better.

Hope to see you Thursday!  We will see what I can accomplish tomorrow in prep for TOSRV.
Thanks for the invitation, Pam ela.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Una Smith <una.smith@att.net>
Date: Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [MSAR] search strategies for mounted SAR
To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>


If ATVs are not usable off the ATV owner's own property, there is little
point going to any great lengths to train with them.

Irvin Lichtenstein  wrote:
>                                                                    One of
>the remarkable practices in this area is that all the specialty teams (urban
>rescue, mass casualty, disaster relief, technical rescue, fire, etc.) hold
>regularly scheduled drills, exercises, and task force deployments.  They get
>to know each responder personally and how each organization works down to
>the individual responder level.  This is necessary for good interaction in a
>real emergency.

This is how it should be, I think.  This is how it sort of works for SAR
in New Mexico.  Statewide, the SAR community is one big family and people
who wear SAR management hats (like me, now and then) need to know the
people who make up the field teams.  But we are not so well coordinated
with other agencies.

At the last mission I participated in, 2 weeks ago, I recognized a little
more than half of the ~50 SAR responders who participated.  Some whose
faces I had never seen before, I have "known" online for years.  Meeting
those folks in person is really cool...  That was a successful mission
in that we found the subject, alive and in excellent condition under the
circumstances.  It was a not-so-successful mission in that there were
some problems that should not have been problems.  But from these we can
learn!  It involved a lot of different agencies:  municipal police and
fire departments, state police, SAR, a national security facility, and a
national park.  We used a helipad and certain procedures of a national
interagency wildfire management team, and all the agencies involved got
valuable practice working together outside of a big national security or
disaster incident.

       Una Smith
       New Mexico

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