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✅ SAR Responder Certification Online: Course Completion Roadmap

Follow each stage in order to complete your SAR Responder Essentials Certification Track. This roadmap is designed to help you build confidence, operational skill, and SAR readiness - one course at a time.

🧭 Stage 1: Foundation - Core Knowledge and Awareness

Start here. These are the essential concepts and safety mindsets every SAR responder must understand.

  • Search and Rescue (SAR) Fundamentals
  • Responder Risk Management and L.C.E.S.
  • Bloodborne Pathogens Awareness for Responders
  • Emergency Medical Awareness
  • Job Hazard Analysis (JHA)
  • Flood Awareness Training for Law Enforcement & Non-Responders
  • Emotional Intelligence

🗺️ Stage 2: Field Response Skills - Search, Rescue, and Scene Tactics

Build the core technical skills for SAR operations in a variety of environments.

  • Tracking and Clue Awareness
  • Search Strategy for the Lost and Missing
  • Types of Searches for the Lost or Missing
  • Search Techniques – Intermediate
  • Search Techniques – Advanced
  • Interior Search Strategy
  • Types of Interior Spaces for SAR
  • Search and Rescue (SAR) Intermediate
  • OFR3: Off-Road Recovery Support
  • OFR2: Off-Road Recovery Lead
  • Helicopter Operations for Search & Rescue (SAR)

📋 Stage 3: Scene Management - Initial to Ongoing Operations

Learn how to manage, document, and operate effectively from first response through evolving incidents.

  • Initial Response
  • Improving the Initial Response – Part 2 (Trigger)
  • Initial On-Scene Assessment
  • Documentation for Search & Rescue
  • Crime Scene & Evidence Preservation for Responders
  • Conducting Field Interviews
  • Evacuation Prerequisites
  • Preliminary Damage Assessment

📡 Stage 4: Teamwork and Coordination - Communication and Structure

Coordinate seamlessly across agencies, teams, and ICS structures.

  • Briefing and Debriefing for Better Communication
  • Communication Essentials
  • Span of Control
  • Command Posts vs. Operations Centers
  • Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Fundamentals
  • Event Facility Management
  • Forms Used for Response Planning
  • Resource Types and Kinds
  • Resource Tracking
  • R.O.C.K.: Developing the Crisis Response Organization

🔬 Stage 5: Specialty Topics - Focus Areas and Advanced Contexts

Drill into K9 operations, technical SAR, and disaster-specific methods.

  • United States National Grid (USNG) Mapping
  • Canine Behavior & Drives
  • Search and Rescue K9’s – Introduction
  • 4 Objectives of Disaster Search

🎓 Stage 6: Readiness and Leadership – Strategic and Legacy Thinking

Round out your journey with advanced leadership insight and crisis-tested practices.

  • Legacy of Leadership

Your Essential SAR COURSES

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  • Transcripts can be accessed here.
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Your Essential SAR PRODUCTS

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Your Essential SAR INSIGHTS

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BOOKS by Mike McKenna

ARTICLES

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CASE STUDY:Communication Breakdown in Crisis ResponseCopyright TEAM-Solutions.US All Rights ReservedBACKGROUNDThe Westfield Emergency Operations Center (EOC) [named changed for privacy] ...

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CASE STUDY: Communication Breakdown in Crisis Response

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