It’s 2000 hours somewhere along the New Madrid fault and a 7.5 magnitude earthquake has struck several major cities. Your team has been dispatched to start Search and Rescue efforts. Are you ready? Is your equipment ready? Do you have a process to start your search effort? Can you navigate through the disaster area? What maps are you going use? Will you be interoperable with other search teams?

The TEEX US&R Disaster Technical Search Specialist course will answer these and other questions. Learn about search definitions that will define how you will conduct searches and quantify your searches. You will be instructed in the differences between various types of searches; Hasty, Primary and Secondary searches. We cannot carry enough paint for markings during wide area searches; you will be introduced to the peel-and-stick search marking. You will learn to identify high-probability locations where victims maybe trapped in collapsed structures. You will find new ways to use your search cameras and practice using different manufacturers’ cameras. Acoustical and seismic equipment will be used to detect and then locate victims.

Learn how to use GPS for navigation and documentation. Interoperability with the military is very important and the United States National Grid (USNG) is interoperable with the Military Grid reference system. USNG is a new position format for your GPS and is starting to be used by emergency responders.

Your instructors have "been there, done that.” They have all been on numerous responses from collapsed structures to wilderness and wide area searches. The site at Disaster City® is a US&R playground where your skills will be put to the test as a student. This is all done in an exciting setting of collapsed structures, train derailments, and debris fields that are not found anywhere else in the United States. Final scenarios will be used to detect and locate live victims that will be moulaged and will respond like trapped victims. Take advantage of this unique and exciting opportunity to learn at the best US&R training facility in the United States.

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