Connecticut Canine Search And Rescue

CCSAR Search Management Course

SEARCH MANAGEMENT COURSE
(SMC)

Developed by Gordie Snow of Search & Rescue Services, New Brunswick, Canada

March 9 - 11, 2007

Location:

MDC Training Center
125 Maxim Road
Hartford, CT

Dates\Times:

Friday, March 9 - 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday, March 10 - 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday, March 11 - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

For more information:

Please email the Training Director.

A Registration Fee of $150 payable to CCSAR, due by March 1st, 2007, includes all course material and a certificate.
Coffee and snacks are supplied.

Class is limited to the first 25 applicants.

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Graduates of this course have applied the principles and techniques learned to write search pre-plans, manage searches to rapid conclusions or assist others to do so, and save lives.

This course teaches:

  • Analyzing search emergencies
  • Determining urgency
  • Incident containment
  • Lost person behaviors
  • Determining high probability search areas
  • Effective application of available search resources
  • The current incantation of the Incident Command System, called NIMS

Considered "state of the art," these strategies and tactics for search and rescue are the standard to be met in North America today.  Upon completion of the course, you will be able to develop a search and rescue preplan, assemble an effective overhead management team, know how to use available search resources, and develop and implement an efficient incident plan.

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Who has taken the Search Management  course?

Since 1995 over 100 police, fire, water company, park management, EMS, and volunteer SAR personnel from Connecticut and neighboring states have been certified through this course.  Nationwide this course is used for training police officers, fire rescue teams and search and rescue volunteers.
 

This course has been developed by Gordie Snow, Royal Canadian Mounted Police(Retired).  The class is taught by CCSAR member-instructors certified by Gordie.

Gordie has participated in over 200 searches and supervised over 50 searches during his 35 years in the RCMP. In 1984 he became Ground Search and Rescue Coordinator for the province of New Brunswick, and was also responsible for organizing and training volunteers throughout the Province. He is a certified instructor in a wide range of courses in wilderness survival, map and compass, human tracking and search techniques.

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