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auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Racing to Find Steve
Fossett: Adventure Racers Go Where Technology Can’t</span></font> <o:p></o:p></li>
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auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Lost Person Behavior
Train-the-Trainer Course August 14 - 18</span></font> <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font size=2
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>The
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font-style:italic'>River Rescue</span></font></i><font size=2
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> 4<sup>th</sup>
Edition Is Hot off the Press</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
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auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Remember to Search the
Residence … At Least Twice </span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
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auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Google Latitude – Another
Useful Tool to Track One’s Location </span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'>Racing to Find Steve Fossett: Adventure
Racers Go Where Technology Can’t</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>In his article on adventure racers searching for Steve
Fossett, Jon Billman literally follows the story of one man’s mission to put
adventure racers to the task of finding Steve Fossett. His story reads as
fast-paced and intense as the effort must have been. He introduces us to
Simon Donato, leader of Team Adventure Science and founder of the Canadian
Adventure Racing Association. His idea was to "use hyperfit dudes on the
ground, where technology turned up nil." Adventure Science was born out
of the idea that adventure racers are physically fit enough to cover ground
that ATVs have difficulty with, and that they can do much faster than
traditional searchers on foot. And being on foot would give searchers a
better chance of catching the details. When he began to think about matching
adventure racers to the search effort for Fossett, it seemed to make sense,
especially since the high tech method, which we've reported on in SARNews in the
past, had not been successful. What made most sense was to put people on the
ground in the most difficult areas. And thus, his greatest challenge was to
determine a search area. To do this, he studied maps and talked with pilots,
aeronautical engineers and SAR experts. He came pretty close. The whole story
is absolutely worth reading - it is a great read, compelling and
riveting, and reaffirms the value of people on the ground in search and
rescue. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Verdana'><a
href="http://outside.away.com/outside/destinations/200810/steve-fossett-search_2.html">http://outside.away.com/outside/destinations/200810/steve-fossett-search_2.html</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'>Lost Person Behavior Train the Trainer
Course August 14 – 18</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>A second Lost Person Behavior Train the Trainer Course
is being offered August 14 to 18. Become certified to instruct <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Lost Person Behavior</span></i> based upon the
program developed by Robert Koester and currently used by the Virginia
Department of Emergency Management's SAR program. The course includes the
full Lost Person Behavior course plus in-depth instruction on the details and
mechanics of teaching the class, case studies, map problems, and a day trip
into nearby Shenandoah National Park for on-site review of actual major
searches that have occurred there. The course will be held at <st1:placename u1:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Blue Ridge</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype u1:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> near <st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:city u1:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Charlottesville</st1:City>, <st1:state u1:st="on"><st1:State
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More information on course requirements, agenda, registration, fees, lodging
is at <a href="http://www.dbs-sar.com/LPB_TTT/index.htm">http://www.dbs-sar.com/LPB_TTT/index.htm</a>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Backpacker Magazine’s recent issue contains a snapshot
profile of a hiker. Data to build this profile was taken from the
International Search and Rescue Incident Database (ISRID). More details about
Hiker behavior and statistics on where lost hikers are most likely to be
found are described in <i><span style='font-style:italic'><a
href="http://www.dbs-sar.com">Lost Person Behavior</a> </span></i>by Robert
Koester. In addition to Hiker, there are 40 other behavior profiles of lost
persons, based on age (e.g., children), mental status (e.g., dementia,
despondent), and activity (e.g., camping, mountain biking, skiing,
water-related). </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><a
href="http://www.backpacker.com/how_where_when_hikers_get_lost/destinations/13120">http://www.backpacker.com/how_where_when_hikers_get_lost/destinations/13120</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>River Rescue</span></font></i></b><b><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
font-weight:bold'> 4<sup>th</sup> Edition Is Hot off the Press</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>This edition boasts
106 illustrations and 144 photographs in 292 fact-filled pages which feature:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>new photos and
first-hand accounts of rescues</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
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color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>expanded material on big-water rescue-new gear and methods</span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
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color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>self-rescue and rescue of others-by hand, boat, rope, and
other ways</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
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color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>tools and techniques-rope work, throw bags, boat handling,
high- and low-tech gear to use when seconds count</span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
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color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>rescue organization-leadership, teamwork, patient care,
evacuation, and more</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-style:italic'>River
Rescue</span></font></i><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>, by Slim Ray,</span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;color:black'> has been <i><span style='font-style:italic'>the</span></i>
reference book for canoe, kayak, and raft, from beginner self-rescue to big
river teamwork, since 1985. It is now available from <a
href="http://www.dbs-sar.com">www.dbs-sar.com</a>. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'>Remember to Search the Residence … At
Least Twice</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>This unfortunate story, in which an elderly woman was
found buried in rubble seven years after she went missing, probably does not
come as a surprise to seasoned urban search and rescue professionals, but it
is shocking none the less. This story can be a reminder to all search and
rescue efforts to search a missing person’s residence thoroughly at least
twice.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><a
href="http://www.bittenandbound.com/2009/03/27/eunice-workman-missing-woman-lay-dead-in-her-home-7-years/">http://www.bittenandbound.com/2009/03/27/eunice-workman-missing-woman-lay-dead-in-her<font
size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>-</span></font>home-7-years/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'>Google Latitude – Another Useful Tool
to Track One’s Location</span></font></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>This software can be installed on your cell phone. You
can then allow others, who you have control over selecting, keep track of
where you are. For search and rescue, it could provide useful information
about where a lost person is, as well as benefit search managers in keeping
track of search volunteers responding to and from a search. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>The
Search and Rescue Institute of New Zealand Trust (SARINZ) is sponsoring
research for Robert Koester to develop a testing methodology and experimental
protocol for determining the detection index (sweep width) for sound
search and light search in <st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region>
conditions. Development of these sweep width tables will support future
search operations of missing/lost person(s) hopefully around the world
by more accurately determining how well a search resource has searched an
area or segment. This data will then enhance planning efforts by determining
the optimal allocation (or reallocation) of available search assets as well
as providing a scientific base for areas that should be
re-searched. While almost all of the staff of dbS Productions are headed
to <st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region>,
phones will still be answered, emailed replied to, and orders processed and
shipped (just go to <a href="http://www.dbs-sar.com">www.dbs-sar.com</a> to
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b><st1:state u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><font
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font-weight:bold'> SAR Conference (ISARC) August 21 – 23</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Verdana'>ISARC will be held at <st1:placename u1:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Rend</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype u1:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Lake</st1:PlaceType> <st1:placename u1:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Resort & Conference</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype u1:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType> in <st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:city u1:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Whittington</st1:City>, <st1:state u1:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">IL</st1:State></st1:place> </st1:state></st1:city></st1:place>.
Conference agenda, activities and registration info is now available online.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-weight:bold'> SAR (AZSAR) 2009 Conference September 18 – 20</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>This year’s Arizona SAR Conference will be held at the
Salvation Army Camp Ponderosa in Heber, AZ. Classes include Man Tracking, K9,
Mounted, ATV & UTV, helicopter safety, Wilderness First Aid, NASAR
SARTECH Certification, CASIE (Computer Aided Search Information Exchange),
Alzheimer’s, and swiftwater rescue. Meals, rooms, RV and tent camping on the
facility are available. An online registration form should be up and running
soon, but in the meantime, contact James Langston at </span></font><font
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464-6220</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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