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Hasty and Extended - answer-What are the two types of searches (categorized by
length?
The lost, overdue, endangered, suicidal, aircraft - answer-WHO is searched for?
Mobile and responsive, mobile and unresponsive, immobile and responsive, and
immobile and unresponsive - answer-What are the four states a subject may be in?
Random traveling, route traveling, direction traveling, route sampling, direction
sampling, view enhancing, back tracking, folk wisdom, and staying put - answer-What
are the nine techniques that subjects may use to try to orient themselves?
Route/location and area - answer-What are the two types of searches (categorized by
geography covered)?
Sign cutters/human trackers, hasty teams, grid teams, and untrained volunteers -
answer-What are four types of ground searchers?
Single resource, strike team, task force - answer-What are the three ways to temporarily
categorize resources in ICS?
Place Last Seen - answer-What is the PLS?
, Lost Person Questionnaire - answer-What is the LPQ?
Last Known Position - answer-What is the LPK?
Initial Planning Point - answer-What is the IPP?
Lost Person Behavior - answer-What is LPB?
Trail blocks, road patterns, and track traps - answer-What are three methods of physical
confinement?
Leaving voicemails, texts, emails, notes on car/residence, checking with transportation
companies, and checking with hospitals or jails - answer-What are examples of virtual
confinement?
Age, medical condition, number of subjects, subject experience profile, weather profile,
equipment profile, and terrain/hazards profile - answer-What items are included in the
Search Urgency Rating Chart?
Physical, electronic, witness reports, or investigative - answer-What are four forms that
clues may come in?
Incident Action Plan - answer-What is the IAP?
After Action Review - answer-What is an AAR?
What worked well, what didn't work well, and what should be done next time - answer-
What are the important aspects of the AAR?
Effort to locate someone in distress - answer-What is a search?