SAR Fundamentals/Survival skills

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Preventive SAR

• keeping others out of trouble
• keeping yourself out of trouble

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Prevention programs

• AdventureSmart
• Hug a Tree, Lost in the Woods
• Public education
• Educating your team
• Educating yourself

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How people get into trouble

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Characteristics of people that get into trouble

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• nearly all survival situations are short term [3]
  • less than 72 hours [3]
  • 98% [3]

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Desired traits for outdoor enjoyment

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• personality traits [1]
  • makes decisions [1]
  • improvises [1]
  • adapts to situation [1]
    • makes the best of it [1]
  • prepares [1]
    • hopes for the best, prepares for the worst [1]
  • knows fears, controls them [1]

• people rarely go out of their comfort zone [3]
• people who regularly act at the edge of their comfort zone, react better to emergencies [3]

Letting people know your plans

• hand out trip plan brochures

'queue up FOG SAR slides 527 to 550 (Chapter 25 Short Term Survival Skills) Survival

• So you're in trouble, now what?

What do you need to survive?

• survival priorities [1]
  • PMA - will to live
  • Air
  • Clothing/Shelter/Heat
  • Rest
    • 30 hours [3]
  • Water
  • Food
  • Rule of 3's
    • 3 minutes withuut air
    • 3 hours without shelter/clothing
    • 3 days without water
    • 3 weeks without food

PMA

• brain is most important survival tool [1]

• Survival requires maintaining a ~positive mental attitude~. [1]
  • the will to live [1]
  • problem solving ability [1]
  • PMA alone is not sufficient [1]
  • how to produce
    • education [1]
    • training [1]
    • practice
    • experience [1]

• mental step of Emergency Management [1]
  • STOP [1]
  • Stop [1]
    • Stop at first sign of danger, to give time to think [2]
  • Think [1]
    • think about immediate and future dangers [2]
  • Observe [1]
    • size up situation [2]
  • Plan [1]

• controlling fear [1]
  • many strategies [1]
  • face head-on [1]
  • recognize as natural [1]
  • establish nature/cause of fear [1]
  • in self [1]
    • do not physically or mentally run away [1]
    • take control of the situation; don't let it control you [1]
    • expand your comfort zone [1]
    • be prepared, realize it can happen to you [1]
    • have procedures to keep busy mentally or physically [1]
    • realistic goals [1]
    • teamwork [1]
    • affirmative self-talk [1]
    • spiritual faith[1]
    • be informed [1]
    • keep things in perspective [1]
• in others [1]
  • mutual support [1]
  • leadership [1]
  • avoid resentment [1]
  • avoid chiding [1]
  • accept other's limits [1]
  • comfort [1]
  • avoid letting people feel sorry for themselves [1]
  • involve in simple tasks [1]

Survival Plan

• phase 1 - emergency response [1]
  • 1st 6 hours [1]
  • protect life [1]
    • priorities and necessities of life [1]
  • first aid [1]
  • protect/inventory equipment [1]
  • conserve body resources [1]
    • water [1]
    • energy [1]
    • heat [1]
  • signal for help [1]
  • build fire [1]
    • PMA vs physical need

• phase 2 - continued life support [1]
  • maintain physical needs [1]
  • apply survival skills [1]
  • maintain PMA [1]
  • watch for future dangers [1]

• phase 3 - rescue [1]
  • continue signalling [1]
  • plan self rescue [1]

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Improvising

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Shelter

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Consideration for Shelter Building

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How Weathe Shelter

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Cold Weather Shelter

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Firecraft

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Location of Fire

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Fire Making Sources

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tinder - e.g. cottonballs, dry grass, cattail fluff, birch bark

kindling - e.g. cedar bark, dry leaves, small twigs

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Fire Craft Tips

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fuzz stick (feather stick) - a small stick of wood which has slices on the side to create small attached shavings

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Signalling

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Water

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