Deck 29: Wilderness Search and Rescue

Question 1

Once assigned to a team and given an objective, searchers need to be self-sufficient in terms of personal equipment and appropriate clothing for the season and environment.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The "A" in the mnemonic LAST stands for ____.

A) Assess
B) Access
C) Ambulatory
D) Amputation

Answer 2

Access

Question 3

Psychotic subjects many times walk off and enter deep, thickly wooded wilderness areas.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Air scent dogs must be kept on a lead during a search.

Question 5

A study of 2,302 wilderness search and rescue (SAR) missions published in the Journal of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine in 2007 indicated that ____ was the strongest predictor of survival.

A) weather
B) time
C) location
D) age

Question 6

The "S" in the mnemonic LAST stands for ____.

A) Stabilize
B) Segregate
C) Simplify
D) Screen

Question 7

Children ages one to three years old do not understand the concept of being lost.

Question 8

The "T" in the mnemonic LAST stands for ____.

A) Technical
B) Trouble
C) Transport
D) Trace

Question 9

The Paramedic trained at the Operations level must also be trained to the Technician level for rope rescue.

Question 10

During a rescue operation, a search of high probability areas is called a(n) ____ search.

A) point
B) grid
C) hasty
D) indirect

Question 11

When a person is reported as lost, the first step in notification is ____.

A) call-out
B) check-out
C) critique
D) deployment

Question 12

Following notification, the ____level Paramedic will establish Incident Command, including scene control.

A) Awareness
B) Technician
C) Operations
D) Specialist

Question 13

Car exhaust can obscure a scent trail.

Question 14

Most searches utilize direct search tactics.

Question 15

Aerial reconnaissance (using aircraft to conduct a search) can be part of the direct search tactics.

Question 16

At the ____ level, the Paramedic starts the process of establishing a wilderness search and rescue with a set of SOPs, and is expected to obtain information about the terrain.

A) Operations
B) Awareness
C) Technician
D) Specialist

Question 17

The "L" in the mnemonic LAST stands for ____.

A) Lives
B) Limbs
C) Litigation
D) Locate

Question 18

The National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) addresses wilderness search and rescue in its standard on operations for technical search and rescue incidents, NFPA ____.

A) 420
B) 890
C) 1670
D) 2010

Question 19

When wandering, Alzheimer's patients generally continue forward, albeit slowly, and will continue to move forward until they reach a physical impediment.

Question 20

Effective search width is a measure of the effectiveness with which a particular sensor (person or dog) can detect a particular object under specific environmental conditions.

Question 21

A ____ search involves looking for any place that can provide food, water, shelter, or medical attention.

A) hasty
B) grid
C) bracket
D) bastard

Question 22

Tracking teams are typically made up of ____ searchers.

A) three
B) six
C) nine
D) twelve

Question 23

____ consist of general information shared with the searchers about the incident and the objectives, as well as specific information gained from the Lost Person Questionnaire.

A) Critiques
B) Briefings
C) Call-outs
D) Check-ins

Question 24

____ theory is a mathematical approach to determining how best to find that which is sought.

A) Recovery
B) Search
C) Grid
D) Point

Question 25

____ tactics, or searches targeted toward actually finding the missing individual, are typically thought of as ground searching.

A) Passive
B) Direct
C) Hasty
D) Indirect

Question 26

____ is looking for evidence that a subject has been in a given area, rather than looking for the subject himself.

A) Sweeping
B) Pointing
C) Tracking
D) Bracketing

Question 27

____ is the process of relating all information gained by a searcher during an assignment to the search management.

A) Critique
B) Briefing
C) Call-out
D) Debriefing

Question 28

Loose grid searches are usually done in teams of no more than ____ search and rescue Technicians.

A) seven
B) ten
C) twelve
D) fifteen

Question 29

____ search tactics include actions that do not take place in the search area itself.

A) Direct
B) Active
C) Indirect
D) Hasty

Question 30

____ involves establishing a best guess perimeter to contain the subject and limit the search area.

A) Attraction
B) Bracketing
C) Tracking
D) Containment

Question 31

____ describes the sudden onset of overwhelming panic and confusion a person may feel after initially realizing he is lost.

A) Woods shock
B) Dementia
C) Despondence
D) Hikers confusion

Question 32

____ uses stride length to skip a step when a sign cannot be found and to determine where the next step might be located.

A) Tracking
B) Bracketing
C) Sweeping
D) Pointing

Question 33

A mission critique is best done ____ the incident.

A) shortly after
B) just before
C) long after
D) during

Question 34

____ is a method of encouraging the patient to come to the searchers or move to a specific location.

A) Attraction
B) Containment
C) Entrapment
D) Quarantine

Question 35

____ searches are very slow, methodical, thorough, yield high coverage of the search area, and align personnel in a parallel or echelon formation of equal spacing as the terrain allows.

A) Hasty
B) Loose grid
C) Tight grid
D) Bastard