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This session will provide practical guidance on conducting meaningful hotwashes and developing structured after-action reports/improvement plans following SAR incidents. The presentation will focus on how SAR leaders can capture lessons learned, identify corrective actions, support responder wellness, and turn complex or extended incidents into useful improvements for future operations.
- 2.00 Operations
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This session will explore the unique mental health challenges faced by first responders and examine how cumulative trauma affects emotional,cognitive, physical, and occupational well-being. Participants will gain insight into the signs and symptoms of trauma-related stress, barriers toseeking help, and the cultural stigma surrounding mental health within the first responder community.
- 2.00 Operations
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This session will cover basic techniques for ascending fixed ropes in different situations. We'll go over the use of mechanical ascenders, frictionhitches, and hybrid systems, with hands-on exercises to help deepen your understanding.
- 2.00 Operations
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Mine rescue teams respond to emergencies underground with the goal of finding and safely extricating trapped or injured miners and restoringairflow to the mine. Depending on the mine and the emergency, teams will use rope rescue, firefighting, first aid, and underground navigational skills.This session introduces mine rescue teams, discusses integration of mine rescue teams with SAR responses, and presents rebreathers and gas monitors used in underground rescue.
- 2.00 Operations
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SAR Canines are part of the team. This engaging course will cover how to take care of a K9 team member when injured or in need of medicalattention. The presentation will cover assessments, approaches and treatments of the injured canine team member.
- 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.