Air Idaho Search & Rescue - 16th Annual Training

3329 Swan Valley Highway,Swan Valley ID 83449

05 February, 2021

Description

Review the essential first responder skills and gear for effective backcountry winter rescue. Join us in Swan Valley, ID for our 16th annual winter search & rescue training. There will be multiple situations offering a variety of adventure and challenge for all levels of outdoor skills, medical and first aid skills, technical rescue skills, and fitness levels of responders. Opportunities include: • Communications: Work in the Command Center or out in the field. • Operations / Staging / Transportation: Manage parking, equipment, transportation, and including setting up a snow Landing Zone for the Air Idaho Rescue (AIR) helicopter. • Steep Slope Rescue Scenario: Injured patient(s) are located on a steep slope. Join a team to learn and practice how to safely reach them, provide care, and effectively get them to safe ground. • Backcountry Hasty Response Teams: Respond on foot, snow-shoes, backcountry skis or snowmobile. Teams will search for, find, provide first aid, and warm the patients up. Working with the transportation teams, the hasty teams will ultimately package and rescue the lost and/or injured people who are out in the snow. Some of these rescues will be within walking distance of the command center and right off the trail. Others will be more challenging, involving off-trail travel into technical terrain by snowmobile or on backcountry skis or snowshoes. • Dinner and Debrief: Exercise finishes around 1pm. Dinner will begin when everyone gets safely out. Soup & chili provided by the area EMS services and SAR. Local attendees are asked to help with salads, sides or desserts.