SARTECH-III Practice Questions with Verified
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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?
After Action Review
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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?
After Action Review
