When things go bad in the wild and people
get stuck, we trained in search and rescue and volunteer to be ready to
deployed to find and rescue them. These missions will depend on search and
rescue volunteers to form the backbone of many rescue operations. We offer
training that helps to show up with a handful of skills such as:
- Wilderness
Survival - skills and techniques that a person may
use in order to sustain life in any type of natural environment or built
environment. These techniques are meant to provide basic necessities for human
life which include water, food, and shelter.
- First
Aid - the assistance given to any person
suffering a illness or injury, with care provided to preserve life, prevent the
condition from worsening, or to promote recovery.
- Medical
Operations - to provide greatest goods for greatest
numbers by conducting triage and rapid treatment such as: Apply techniques for
opening airway, controlling bleeding, and treating for shock
- Team
Organization - organized group of volunteers who are
involved in performing shared/individual tasks of the mission as well as
achieving shared/individual goals and objectives for the purpose of
accomplishing the mission and producing its results.
- Fire
Safety - the study and practice of mitigating the
unwanted effects of potentially destructive fires
Overall
Boondocks K-9 Search and Rescue - Community Emergency Response Team members and
volunteers will be educated and trained to specific assist during any type of
disaster or situation.
The Reason of Boondocks K-9 Unit
Not all SAR (search and rescue) dogs
perform the same type of search. The types overlap, the distinction guides are
in the training process and how the dog participates in missions.
- Tracking
or trailing dogs work with their nose to the ground.
They follow a trail of human scent -- typically heavy skin particles that fall
quickly to the ground or onto bushes -- through any type of terrain. These dogs
are not searching, they're following: Tracking dogs need a last seen starting
point, an article with the person's scent on it to work from and an
uncontaminated trail. For this type of work, time is an issue the faster a dog
can start the better.
- Air-scent
dogs work with their nose in the air. They pick up human scent anywhere in the
vicinity -- they don't need a last seen starting point, an article to work from
or a scent trail, and time is not an issue. Whereas tracking dogs follow a
particular scent trail, air-scent dogs pick up a scent carried in air currents
and seek out its origin, the point of greatest concentration.
Air-scenters might specialize in a particular
type of search, such as:
- Cadaver
- specifically search for the scent of human remains, detecting the smell of
human decomposition gasses in addition to skin rafts. Cadaver dogs can find
something as small as a human tooth or a single drop of blood.
- Water
- search for drowning victims by boat. When a body is under water, skin
particles and gases rise to the surface, so dogs can smell a body even when
it's completely immersed. Typically, more than one SAR team searches the area
of interest, and divers use each dog's alert point, along with water-current
analysis, to estimate the most likely location of the body.
- Urban disaster
- The most difficult SAR specialty, urban disaster dogs search for human
survivors in collapsed buildings. They must navigate dangerous, unstable
terrain.
- Wilderness
- search for human scent in a wilderness setting.