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AKA
BLM
CalStar
CARDA
CCC
CDF
Central
CLEMARS
Comm Van
Cut for Sign
CP
CYA
Debrief
DF
EDC
EDNF
EDSAR
EDSO
ELT
EOC
ESAR
ESARC
ETA
ETD
Fallon
FLIR
GPS
Grid Search
H20
ICS
K-Tag
Life Flight
LZ
MP
Mutual Aid
NASAR
OES
Overhead
PLK
PLS
POA
POD
POS
RP
SAREX
SARSAT
SO
SRT
Topo Map
USFS
USGS
WOOF
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CHP fixed wing aircraft from Sacramento
Also Known As
US Bureau of Land Management: manages most public land in this area
Rescue/Recovery helicopter: not normally used for searching
California Rescue Dog Association which certifies dogs and their handlers
California Conservation Corps
California Department of Forestry
Central County Fire, Sheriff, Placerville Police radio/911 center in Placerville
California Law Enforcement Mutual Assistance Radio System (154.920 Mhz)
Communications Vehicle: a large and a small van
Look for clues and tracks
Command Post
California Youth Authority (operates a SAR team)
Questioning to find exactly where teams searched & what they found
Direction Finder - an electronic device that finds ELT's (see below)
El Dorado County
Eldorado National Forest
El Dorado County Search & Rescue
El Dorado County Sheriff's Office
Emergency Location Transmitter: an aircraft crash beacon
Emergency Operations Center: part of the OES office
Explorer Search and Rescue: part of the Boy Scouts of America
El Dorado County Search & Rescue Council
Estimated Time of Arrival
Estimated Time of Departure
US Naval Air Station, Fallon, Nevada has military search and rescue aircraft
Forward Looking Infra Red: helicopter-mounted infra-red (heat) detector
Global Positional System: hand-held satellite-based locating device
Tight pattern search tactic
CHP helicopter from Sacramento
Incident Command System: ad hoc law enforcement organizational structure
Forest Service survey marker that helps to determine location
Medical helicopter from Sacramento Med Center
Landing Zone: usually for helicopters
Missing Person
Assistance to and from other counties for Search and Rescue
National Association of Search and Rescue
Office of Emergency Services: El Dorado County function under the SO
Search Management Team on searches
Place Last Known: subject's last known location
Place Last Seen: subject's last sighting
Probability of Area: ranking of likely search areas
Probability of Detection: est. percent of detection area a team covered
Probability of Success: method of assigning priorities to search areas
Reporting Party: law enforcement term for person reporting the incident
Search and Rescue Exercise
Search and Rescue Satellite: detects ELT's
Sheriff's Office (USFS uses SO to refer to the Forest Supervisor's Office)
Swift Water Rescue Technician
Topographical Map that shows contours
US Forest Service
US Geological Survey
Wilderness Outdoors Finders: SAR dog organization
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