Training and Equipment
All Rovers are trained under the guiding principles of the Z1620, Core Competency Standards for Ground Search and Rescue operations: Searcher, Team Leader, and SAR Manager.
Rovers receive training in many hands-on and theory-based courses. Some include:
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- Incident Command System (ICS)
- Computerized Mapping Systems
- Basic Emergency Management
- Emergency Scene Management
- Urban Search and Rescue
- Emergency Operations Center Management
- VHF Radio Certification
- Maritime Radio course
- Map & Compass
- GPS Training
- Survival skills
- Wilderness Remote First Aid
- Advanced Wilderness First Aid
- Standard First Aid
- Pleasure Craft Competency
- Lost Person Behavior
- Search management
- Searching techniques
- Evidence searching
- Rescue techniques
- Fast Rescue Craft
- Hovercraft Rescue
- ATV & Snowmobile
- High Angle Rescue
- Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS)
- Ice Rescue