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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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* know your limits
 
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* communicate limits
 
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* span of control
 
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* re-read chapter 3
 
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* "in charge"
 
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responsibility, control, supervision
 
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* The ICS
 
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* everyone is in charge of something
 
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* everyone has someone who is in charge of them
 
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* standing orders
 
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* e.g. media policy
 
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* safety
 
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* if you see something is unsafe
 
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don't just mutter that that isn't right.
 
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* You have a responsibility
 
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* to fix it yourself, if the matter is normally your responsibility
 
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* to bring it to the attention of the person in charge of it
 
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* to bring it up to your commander
 
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* difference between operational and non-operational situation
 
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* prioritization
 
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* delegation
 
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* bringing in people / releasing people
 
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* assigning responsibilities
 
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* briefing/debriefing
 
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* monitoring
 
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* transfer of charge
 
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* let everyone know
 
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* below
 
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* above
 
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* beside
 
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* scope of charge
 
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* keeping track of responsibilities
 
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* explicit responsibilities
 
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* extending scope
 
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* implicit responsibilities
 
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* safety
 
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* e.g. someone comes to you about some other matter
 
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Do you send tell them who to look for, send them on their way
 
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and ignore all else.
 
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What if that other person has disappeared?
 
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What if the person in command above you has disappeared?
 
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* non-responsibility, usurping decisions
 
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* Role Play Incident
 
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- time: Summer 2001
 
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- Location
 
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area of Santa Rita, Montana
 
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north of
 
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Cut Bank, Montana
 
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Population: 4000
 
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Service community for local ranching and Blackfeet Indian Reservation
 
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Access:
 
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Highway 6 to US border
 
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to Browning
 
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Montana Highway 2 to Cut Bank
 
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travel time: 2 hrs
 
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Description:
 
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Ranching country, rolling hills, coulees, light brush
 
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- Incident
 
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- Missing: Cindy Haddock
 
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Age 8
 
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lives on a ranch
 
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- Incident History
 
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Cindy was discovered missing at supper time, Thursday evening.
 
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Neighbours were contacted.
 
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She was last seen by the house, in the mid afternoon.
 
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By evening an informal search started with friends and family.
 
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Search continued through the night; the sheriff's department was contacted.
 
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Friday morning, a larger search was started, involving neighbours,
 
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family, sheriff's deputies.
 
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Friday noon a neighbour decides to call a relative in PC SAR
 
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- Lost Person's story
 
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Cindy, intent on visiting a friend 2.5 miles away, despite being told not to the previous day.
 
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Scared off road by a wandering dog, runs away into coulee.
 
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Tries climbing out, slips, breaks ankle.
 
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Crawls into Saskatoon bushes out of fear from dog.
 
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Semi-conscious through night and next day until found.
 
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- Story Line
 
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- The Players
 
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- Cindy Haddock
 
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- Norman/Norma New Guy
 
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- Paul/Paula President
 
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- Michael/Michelle Manager
 
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- Oscar/Olive Operations Chief
 
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- Lorne/Lorna Logistics Chief
 
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- P/P Planning Chief
 
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- Sam/Samantha Sheriff
 
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- Tim/Tammy Team Leader
 
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- Sean/Shauna Searcher
 
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- Billy/Billy Billigerent
 
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- First Call
 
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Norman/Norma Newguy, newly joined PC SAR.
 
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Has been talking to cousin about PC SAR.
 
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Cousin is neighbour at Santa Rita.
 
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Cousin calls Norman
 
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- What does Norman do?
 
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- What is Norman in charge of?
 
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- Who does he report to?
 
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- Could he decide not to follow up?
 
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- Response Evaluation
 
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- Who makes the decision? Search Manager or Group President
 
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- Who is the tasking agency?
 
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- Could it be the family?
 
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- What if the call were to further away?
 
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- Accepting the Tasking
 
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- What's the change in who you're reporting to?
 
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- The Call-Out
 
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- Delegating the call-out duty
 
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- who reports to who?
 
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- what is the scope of their charge?
 
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- Who goes?
 
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- Travelling to the site
 
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- Who's over-all in charge?
 
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- What are the responsibilities?
 
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- Arriving at Site
 
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- where do you fit into the ICS?
 
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- what do you do?
 
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- what are your responsibilities while waiting for assignment?
 
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- Installing Overhead Team
 
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- the search is currently undirected
 
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- How to decide to take on a charge not delegated?
 
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- Expanding the Overhead Team
 
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- Delegation to Logistics / Operations / Planning Chief
 
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- Further Delegation: e.g. Radio / Field Commander / Medical Planning
 
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- When to bring in people? Release?
 
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- Responsibilities of supervisor?
 
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- Is supervisor no longer responsible for area?
 
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- assigning responsibilities
 
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- briefing/debriefing
 
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- monitoring
 
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- A Team in the Field
 
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- Who is in charge of the team?
 
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- What are the individual team members in charge of?
 
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- Where do they fit in the ICS?
 
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- notion of Delegation
 
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- Briefing
 
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- Action
 
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- Debriefing
 
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- Hand-over in Overhead Team...
 
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- New Operations Chief moves in
 
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- New Search Manager
 
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- What do you do?
 
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- brief the new person
 
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- let everyone know
 
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- below
 
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- above
 
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- beside
 
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- Difficulties in the Field
 
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- Belligerent searcher
 
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- local insists on searching outside of the area
 
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- how does the team leader handle?
 
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- what are the problems of challenging the person in charge?
 
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- what do you risk?
 
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- when is it appropriate to challenge the person in charge?
 
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- what are ways of handling it?
 
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- The team leader becomes sick
 
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- How do you transfer charge?
 
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- Communications with Overhead Team fails
 
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- Who is in charge?
 
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- How to transfer no formal transfer of charge?
 
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- The Lost Person is Found
 
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- becomes a medical incident
 
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- transfer of charge
 
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- Is the Operation over?
 
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- What things must be managed?
 
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