King County Search and Rescue - 4x4 Unit
Custom Team Training Package
Enroll in this learning track and beging your journey to improving your skills.
14S.1 Gear & Clothing for SAR
Learn about gear and clothing needed for backcountry Search and Rescue, its selection and savy purchasing for the new or candidate SAR member.
23S.1 Legal Concepts in SAR
Learn legal topics important in SAR from an attorney and a physician. Concepts covered include: duty to act, negligence, volunteer protections, consent, responsible agency, HIPAA, abandonment, standard of care, land access and others.
19S.1 Risk Management and Decision Making in SAR
Learn to identify, quantity and manage risk. Recognize positive / negative personal or group behaviors and common cognitive errors. Correctly use risk evaluation tools including GAR, GAR 2.0, RADeMS and IMSAFE. 0.75 CE Hours.
3S.1 Mental Health for SAR Responders
This 1.5 hour course provides the responder with essential knowledge of mental health concerns in emergency response, including responder stress injuries as well as tools for Psychological First Aid.
10S.1 Basic SAR Survival
Learn how to survive and stay effective if things dont go as planned during a SAR mission with survival priorities, emergency shelters, signaling, water treatment, fire building and the STOP framework. 1 CE hours.
15S.1 Understanding Radios for SAR
Learn how two-way radios work and how to best use them in a SAR response environment in this 1.5 hour course. Covers theory, correct procedures, and problem solving in fringe radio coverage areas.
8S.1 SAR Land Navigation
This revised 2 hour course covers the fundamentals of land navigation for backcountry SAR, including, lat/long, UTM, USNG, datums, GPS, topographic maps, compass use, triangulation, and route finding.
12S.1 GPS & Satellite Navigation in SAR
Get the full benefit from your GPS satellite navigation receiver in SAR. Learn the menus, calibration and how to adjust datum/coordinates, set waypoints, create routes, use the track log and share data between your GPS and computer. 1 CE hours.
7S.1 Field Search Tactics
Learn essential the concepts of field search including: clue awareness, subject profile, interviewing, containment, attraction, night search, hazard zones, basic tracking, hasty , open grid, close grid, and evidence searches. 0.75 CE credits.
17S.1 Litter Packaging and Evacuation
This course covers rescue litter types, features and assembly/disassembly, several techniques for patient packaging, and patient movement strategies in a trail or other evacuation that does not involve technical rope work. 1 CE hours.