SAR Tech III Question and Answer
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• Hasty and Extended -✓✓ What are the two types of searches (categorized by
length?
• The lost, overdue, endangered, suicidal, aircraft -✓✓ WHO is searched for?
• Mobile and responsive, mobile and unresponsive, immobile and responsive, and
immobile and unresponsive -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ What
are the nine techniques that subjects may use to try to orient themselves?
• Route/location and area -✓✓ What are the two types of searches (categorized
by geography covered)?
• Sign cutters/human trackers, hasty teams, grid teams, and untrained volunteers
-✓✓ What are four types of ground searchers?
• Single resource, strike team, task force -✓✓ What are the three ways to
temporarily categorize resources in ICS?
• Place Last Seen -✓✓ What is the PLS?
, • Lost Person Questionnaire -✓✓ What is the LPQ?
• Last Known Position -✓✓ What is the LPK?
• Initial Planning Point -✓✓ What is the IPP?
• Lost Person Behavior -✓✓ What is LPB?
• Trail blocks, road patterns, and track traps -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ What are
examples of virtual confinement?
• Age, medical condition, number of subjects, subject experience profile, weather
profile, equipment profile, and terrain/hazards profile -✓✓ What items are
included in the Search Urgency Rating Chart?
• Physical, electronic, witness reports, or investigative -✓✓ What are four forms
that clues may come in?
• Incident Action Plan -✓✓ What is the IAP?
(2026/2027) | Latest Study Guide | 100%
Verified Answers
• Hasty and Extended -✓✓ What are the two types of searches (categorized by
length?
• The lost, overdue, endangered, suicidal, aircraft -✓✓ WHO is searched for?
• Mobile and responsive, mobile and unresponsive, immobile and responsive, and
immobile and unresponsive -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ What
are the nine techniques that subjects may use to try to orient themselves?
• Route/location and area -✓✓ What are the two types of searches (categorized
by geography covered)?
• Sign cutters/human trackers, hasty teams, grid teams, and untrained volunteers
-✓✓ What are four types of ground searchers?
• Single resource, strike team, task force -✓✓ What are the three ways to
temporarily categorize resources in ICS?
• Place Last Seen -✓✓ What is the PLS?
, • Lost Person Questionnaire -✓✓ What is the LPQ?
• Last Known Position -✓✓ What is the LPK?
• Initial Planning Point -✓✓ What is the IPP?
• Lost Person Behavior -✓✓ What is LPB?
• Trail blocks, road patterns, and track traps -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ What are
examples of virtual confinement?
• Age, medical condition, number of subjects, subject experience profile, weather
profile, equipment profile, and terrain/hazards profile -✓✓ What items are
included in the Search Urgency Rating Chart?
• Physical, electronic, witness reports, or investigative -✓✓ What are four forms
that clues may come in?
• Incident Action Plan -✓✓ What is the IAP?
