Online USAR CAT Rescue Exercise

Online USAR CAT Rescue Exercise

One of the most important skills involved with both USAR (Urban Search and Rescue) is the ability to pick something out in a tangled mess, or a burned / destroyed structure.

This exercise is aimed at honing those skills, and reinforcing the fact that not everyone can find something quickly. It takes time and patience.

For the purposes of this drill, your mission is to find a cat, not a person but the skill set is the same. You are looking for the obvious. That's it. Can you find the cat? Someone told me that they had identified two. I'm not so sure about that one...

PLEASE... don't reply with the answer, but instead, and be honest, how long did it take you to find the cat?

Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving!

CBz

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on November 25, 2011 at 2:35pm

Nice

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on November 25, 2011 at 2:38pm

The trick with using TICs this way is to realize that if the cat (or person) has been in a relatively confined space for a while, the space will warm up to nearly body temperature.

When scanning with a TIC for a USAR search, check out the hotter (whiter) areas first.

This will be different than in a fire situation, where the fire will show up as hot and the person/animal will show as cold. (black)

You can also clearly see the difference between the two cat food bowls and the water bowl in the TIC screen.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on November 25, 2011 at 2:45pm

Don't puss out on us. Just think cat... Be the cat... Feel the cat... Find the cat!

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Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on November 26, 2011 at 2:34am

Nicely done sir!

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Permalink Reply by Derek R. on November 26, 2011 at 7:59pm

What I did what a quick scan overall, then zig zag down from the top in "measured" increments. Not too sure what the, if any, correct methods are, but that's how I did it.

great post CBz