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SAR TECH III EXAM LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR
ALL WITH 180 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS
Question: A Search Urgency Form - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔justifies the initial actions such as
performing additional investigation or calling out search resources
Question: POD Estimates, Map or Trail updates that might be needed, hazard areas not
included in the safety briefing, thoughts and impressions from the team members - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔A complete debriefing of a team when they return from a task is critical to
understanding how how well they were able to search their area. A good debriefing should
include all of the following.
Question: Lost Person Behavior (LPB) data provides search planners with general indications of
the following with the exception of - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔How quickly they will be located by
trained searchers
Question: Clues and evidence should be - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔reported and processed
following AHJ SOGs and properly documented and secured in a food grade plastic storage bag
Question: Smelling smoke from a campfire when looking for a pair of missing hikers or finding a
small toy during a search for a child are what type of clues? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Physical
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Question: Who is responsible for establishing a "safety first" mindset during search operations?
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The Safety Officer
Question: The National SAR Committee (NSARC) is responsible for coordinating and improving
federal involvment in civil search and rescue. Its member agencies include the following
agences: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The Department of Defence
The Department of Interior
Federal Communications Commission
The Department of Commerce
Question: The LPQ, maps, statistical data, weather reports, theoretical and search data are
considered - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Planning Data
Question: Search planners use the subject behavioral profile for a number of reasons: -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Determining search strategy
defining the search area
estimating resource needs
mapping the search area
briefing search teams
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Question: Notification of a search assignment to the search team, and notification of a search
assignment to the team members - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Notification of a search is separated
into the following categories
Question: Indirect - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a loose grid is what type of search tactic
Question: direct them to the agency having jurisdiction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔when
approached by the media, searchers should
Question: Local law enforcement and OEM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔search and Rescue response
at the local level is coordinated by
Question: ideally a search segment should be - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔easily identifiable on
both a map and the ground
Question: Experienced, Well Equipped, Highly Mobile, clue conscious, through - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Hasty or efficient searchers
Question: The incident commander - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔the general briefing is critical to
creating a common operational picture of the incident. This briefing is usually conducted by
SAR TECH III EXAM LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR
ALL WITH 180 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS
Question: A Search Urgency Form - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔justifies the initial actions such as
performing additional investigation or calling out search resources
Question: POD Estimates, Map or Trail updates that might be needed, hazard areas not
included in the safety briefing, thoughts and impressions from the team members - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔A complete debriefing of a team when they return from a task is critical to
understanding how how well they were able to search their area. A good debriefing should
include all of the following.
Question: Lost Person Behavior (LPB) data provides search planners with general indications of
the following with the exception of - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔How quickly they will be located by
trained searchers
Question: Clues and evidence should be - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔reported and processed
following AHJ SOGs and properly documented and secured in a food grade plastic storage bag
Question: Smelling smoke from a campfire when looking for a pair of missing hikers or finding a
small toy during a search for a child are what type of clues? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Physical
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Question: Who is responsible for establishing a "safety first" mindset during search operations?
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The Safety Officer
Question: The National SAR Committee (NSARC) is responsible for coordinating and improving
federal involvment in civil search and rescue. Its member agencies include the following
agences: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The Department of Defence
The Department of Interior
Federal Communications Commission
The Department of Commerce
Question: The LPQ, maps, statistical data, weather reports, theoretical and search data are
considered - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Planning Data
Question: Search planners use the subject behavioral profile for a number of reasons: -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Determining search strategy
defining the search area
estimating resource needs
mapping the search area
briefing search teams
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Question: Notification of a search assignment to the search team, and notification of a search
assignment to the team members - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Notification of a search is separated
into the following categories
Question: Indirect - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a loose grid is what type of search tactic
Question: direct them to the agency having jurisdiction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔when
approached by the media, searchers should
Question: Local law enforcement and OEM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔search and Rescue response
at the local level is coordinated by
Question: ideally a search segment should be - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔easily identifiable on
both a map and the ground
Question: Experienced, Well Equipped, Highly Mobile, clue conscious, through - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Hasty or efficient searchers
Question: The incident commander - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔the general briefing is critical to
creating a common operational picture of the incident. This briefing is usually conducted by