DRR Rescue vs SAR Tools

The Essential Technical Rescue Field Operations Guide is now a multi-media App. This full-featured App provides digital access to 240 pages of high-quality illustrated procedures with a fast navigation system so you can find your procedure quickly. Some of the features of this digital Field Operations Guide include: Video Tutorials that will be updated on a regular basis and automatically loaded onto your App device. Shoring Calculators that allow you to generate a cut-list with one take-off measurement. Allows you to share cut lists via text message or email. Trench Calculator for parameters (Total L) on simple straight trenches up to 8 feet wide. Interactive Command Checklists that include an elapsed time function to assist with training, as well as being a tool that helps rescuers lay the framework for safe efficient rescues. Icons within the App denote Awareness, Operational and Technician standards for each procedure. All levels of rescuers will find this a valuable reference tool with state-of-the-art illustrated rescue procedures. The goal of this App is to assist in training rescuers with performance of technical rescue skills and procedures in order to meet the U.S. national standard for consistency safety and competency. This guide is based on U.S. NFPA 1006 Standard for Technical Rescue Personnel Professional Qualifications 2021 edition. This app covers Rope Rescue, Tree Rescue, Technical Rescue, Swift Water Rescue, Mountain Rescue, Confined Space Rescue, Helicopter Rescue, Structural Collapse Rescue, Rescue Medical procedures, and FEMA and NIMS ISC for disaster incident command.

Introduction: The intention of the software is to provide the Marine Search and Rescue Community with some handy calculators that can be used on SAR missions. The App is optimized for portrait orientation on an iPhone and has not been tested on a tablet. Improvements: You can edit individual data values on the "Find a Location" screen by pressing on the degrees, minutes or decimal value for both latitude and longitude. Entered search values are saved when the App is restarted or screens are switched. New search log feature. More streamlined user interface. Feature Summary Overview: - Direct Twitter Feed from @RCM_SAR posts - Sector Search Timer and Calculator. Can run two full circuits of 9 legs with a 30 degree course change to start the second circuit. User enters search speed and search radius, and everything else is calculated automatically. Timer defaults to 0 degrees for the first leg but any value can be entered. Once timer is started, it signals when to turn with the appropriate heading. Timer must be reset when you pass back through datum. Total search time and area are also shown for one circuit. Start time is logged so that it can be transferred to a log book later. - Expanding Square Search Timer and Calculator. Runs a full expanding square search with 18 legs. User enters search speed and search radius Timer defaults to 0 degrees for the first leg, but any value can be entered. Once timer is started it signals when to turn with the appropriate heading. Search can be paused and then restarted at the beginning of the last leg you were on. Total search time and area are also shown for the search. Start time is logged so it can be transferred to a log book later. - Speed, Distance, Time Calculator. Enter any two parameters and it calculates the third. - Find Lat / Long functionality allows you to quickly enter a lat / long and the App will calculate your distance (as the crow flies) along with bearing and also show your current location. You can also automatically map the lat / long entered on google maps. - Search Log automatically keeps record of all the parameters of your searches and allows you to email the log file to anyone you choose. - Night Mode. Sector and Expanding Square Search Calculators have a night mode to preserve night vision. - Vibrate. Timers vibrate in the hand when it is time to turn. - Help. Help is available for Sector and Expanding Square Search Calculators. Published by Adam Hyde of the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCMSAR). Pleasure Boaters should download RCMSAR's "Safe Boating" App on iTunes.