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- 2.00 Operations
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Good leadership in high-consequence environments follows the same principles whether your team is paid or volunteer: clear roles, strongrelationships, deliberate practice, and honest feedback. Volunteer SAR adds unique challenges—you can't mandate attendance, accountabilitylooks different, and people's identity is deeply tied to the work—but the core framework still applies. This interactive session offers practical tools for preventing and resolving conflict in volunteer SAR, both within your team and across the agencies you work alongside, drawn from 30 years of
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Designed for search leaders, ICs, and anyone curious about how UAS can (and can’t) support BSAR, this session offers a practical look at integratingdrones into operations. We'll discuss real-world successes and limitations, highlight tools like Sar Topo and Eagle Eyes, and share lessons learnedfrom Colorado incidents. Expect candid answers, illustrative photos and video, and a focus on when calling for drones actually makes a difference.
- 2.00 Operations
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While creating accountability among SAR volunteers and spreading the administrative workload is tough for any agency, smaller teams face adistinct shortage of resources. This interactive session explores how two teams across the state have worked to create reliable volunteers whoshare the operational load. Join us to explore practical ways to rethink leadership and build an organization that is as resilient off the mountain as it is on it.
- 2.00 Operations
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We often talk about “secure” packaging, but less about what it does to the patient’s physiology during a long raise or lower. This session looks at howspinal concerns, respiratory status, pain, and hypothermia should drive packaging choices. Working through scenarios, we’ll examine harness vslitter setups, positioning, padding and restraint, highlighting simple rigging tweaks that meaningfully change medical outcomes.
- 2.00 Operations
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A conversation on BSAR and wildland fire. From stories, to steps to getstarted, to PPE, culture, radios, assignments, IC, risks, safety, and fireeducation.
- 2.00 Operations
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A case review of a patient in the backcountry who suffered a bee sting which led to anaphylaxis and progressed to cardiac arrest. The Flight forLife team and coroner involved in the case bring many layers of learning to the presentation.
- 2.00 Operations
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The CSAR State Backcountry SAR Coordinator Program consists of a group of highly experienced, volunteer Colorado SAR leaders recruitedfrom teams across the state. Our job is to provide resource coordination, situational awareness, and enhanced communication amongst a widearray of SAR incident types when requested by a local jurisdiction and/or in support of our agency partners. Find out how the program can supportyou and get you what you need, and learn how to activate our 24/7 help by attending this session.
- 2.00 Operations
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Explore how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence are transforming modern search and rescue operations. This interactive panelwill highlight innovative hardware and software tools and examine how they can improve situational awareness, operational efficiency, andresponder safety. Through audience participation, real-world examples, and panel discussion, attendees will have the opportunity to shareperspectives, discuss practical applications, and explore both the opportunities and challenges of integrating these technologies into search
- 2.00 Operations
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A roundtable discussion on the advantages and challenges of being an MRA team, the current structure of the Rocky Mountain Region, and thenational MRA organizational framework, including the Rocky Mountain Region’s role at the national level. Please come with thoughtful hard questions, constructive ideas, and meaningful discussion points.
- 2.00 Operations
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When a vehicle ends up stuck, rolled, or stranded deep in the backcountry, who can you call? Come meet Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery andlearn how we can plug into your operations — providing the specialized rigging, winching, and off-road vehicle recovery support that lets your teamstay focused on the mission. We’ll cover how to bring us in, how we integrate with your incident command, and then show you a live demo of the techniques we’d put to work alongside you in the field.