To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [MSAR] Concern about safety on/near roads
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:32:39 -0400
I doubt Irv meant they close roads only for the benefit of MSAR
teams. This safety measure also protects other SAR resources,
including vehicle and groundpounder teams. And it is a security
measure too, helping to keep well meaning but incompetent
spontaneous volunteers, and others, away from high-POD search
areas.
Remember: What do we search for? Not the subject. We search
for *clues* that lead to the subject. The subject is one clue,
but the subject's trail usually occupies far more space and
thus may be far easier to find.