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Standard Guide for Training of Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Member
 N F3098

Annotation

This guide establishes the minimum training requirements for non-wilderness land search personnel as it relates to their general, field, and search specific knowledge and skills.

A Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Member searches on the surface of the land in non-wilderness areas only, including urban or disaster areas that may be isolated or have lost supporting infrastructure, in accordance with the limits identified in the Scope of this Guide.

This guide does not provide the minimum training requirements for searching in wilderness areas, partially or fully collapsed structures, in or on water, in confined spaces, or underground (such as caves, mines, and tunnels).

Personnel trained only to this guide are not qualified to perform rescue.

Basic rescue skills and knowledge are found in Guide F2751.

Personnel trained only to this guide are not qualified to operate in leadership positions.

Human land SAR resources that may utilize personnel trained to this guide are classified in Classification F1993.

Individuals trained to this guide are qualified to operate on teams or crews classified as Category – Land Search of Kind Non-Wilderness.

Further training may be required before Non- Wilderness Land Search personnel may participate on particular Category or Kind of SAR resource, depending on local needs, regulations, or policies of the authority having jurisdiction.

Non-Wilderness Land Search Team Members are not qualified to work around, or ride in, helicopters without helicopter safety training.