SAR RR TECH 1 is the first of two provincial training courses designed to prepare SAR volunteers to perform rope rescue operations in wildland situations. The course will follow the Emergency Management British Columbia (EMBC) established curriculum as per the EMBC SAR Rope Rescue Manual Section 2: Rope Rescue Technician 1.
Course Schedule
Day 1
- Morning:
- Theory Lecture
- Knots, Bends, and Hitches
- Equipment Introduction
- Classroom Hands-On
- Afternoon:
- Equipment Review
- Knots Review
- Mechanical Advantage Systems
- Anchoring
Day 2
- Morning:
- Theory Lecture
- Classroom Hands-On
- Knots Bends and Hitches
- Lowering Systems
- Afternoon:
- Knots Review
- Patient Packaging
- M/A Systems
- Complete Systems on Low-Slope
Day 3
- Morning:
- Steep Slope Scenario Evolutions
- Afternoon:
Main Teaching Points
(As per NFPA 1006 and 1670 JPR's)
Awareness Level
- Recognize the need for support resources
- Recognize incident hazards and initiate isolation procedures
- Recognize needed resources for a rescue incident
- Initiate a discipline-specific search
- Perform ground support operations for helicopter activities
- Initiate triage of victims
- Assist a team in operation of the haul line of a rope mechanical advantage system raising operation
Operations Level
- Perform size up a rescue incident
- Inspect and maintain hazard-specific PPE
- Inspect and maintain rescue equipment
- Demonstrate knots, bends, and hitches, given ropes
- Construct a single point anchor system
- Construct a multiple-point anchor system
- Conduct a system safety check
- Place edge protection
- Construct a belay system
- Operate a belay system during a lowering or raising operation
- Construct a fixed rope system
- Construct a lowering system
- Construct a simple rope mechanical advantage system
- Direct a team in the operation of a of a simple rope mechanical advantage system
- Negotiate an edge while attached to a rope rescue system
- Access, assess, stabilize, package, and transfer victims
- Direct a litter-lowering and litter-raising operation in a low-angle environment
- Operate as a litter tender in a low-angle lowering or raising operation
- Terminate a technical rescue operation
