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Search at Biltmore 2012 Biltmore Estate
Buncombe County
Asheville, North Carolina
March 28 – 31, 2012
Search at Biltmore 2012 will simulate operational conditions for a search mission in an exercise format. The exercise will begin on Wednesday, March 28 and cease on Saturday, March 31. Live subject(s) will be utilized for the search. The operational periods will be divided into twelve (12) hour increments for the Incident Management Teams—0800-2000 and 2000-0800. Search crews, dog crews, and other operational personnel are encouraged to participate. The incident base will be established on the western grounds of the Biltmore Estate. On site sleeping accommoda-tions will be a base camp consisting of Western Shelter Systems units. Participants may also bring their own tents. RVs and camper trailers will not be permitted on the Estate. Meals will be provided for exercise participants. Registration information is posted on the North Carolina Training and Exercise Registration Management System http://terms.ncem.org/TRS/courseDesc.do?sourcePage=courseSearch&cofId=41378 .
Western SAR Exercise
Date: March 2-4 & 16-18, 2012
Location: Hanging Rock State Park, Danbury NC
Lodging: Campsites and cabins can be reserved at the park
Instructors: Dave Cook & Phil King
Cost: Certification Fee NASAR members $55, non-members $70
Textbook: Purchase from NASAR prior to class
Registration and Class Details: Contact Dave Cook at 336-593-8480
Sponsor: Forsyth Technical Community College
Fundamentals of Search and Rescue
Rangers spend the night on a rock
in a stream with hypothermic
patient, lost 6 days. Terrain and
medical condition prevented carry
out. Stone Mtn. St. Park 2011,
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Join your Search and Rescue comrades at the
2012 National Search and Rescue Conference in
beautiful Lake Tahoe, NV ~ where California and
Nevada meet! The conference is a combined
presentation by the Mountain Rescue Association
(MRA) and the National Association for Search
and Rescue (NASAR).
Dates: June 7-12, 2012
Information: http://
2012 National Search and Rescue Conference
Dates: Mar 16, 2012 - Mar 17, 2012 Location: White, GA Instructor: Allen Padgett Jr. E-mail Lead Evaluator at [email protected] to register and receive additional information
SAR Tech II Exam: White, Georgia
North Carolina Wilderness Search and Rescue
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IMPROVISED SHELTERS AT
NORTH CAROLINA FUNSAR
CLASSES.
.This course will present the Technical Rescuer with the knowledge, skills, and ability to satisfy the requirements of Chapter Sixteen (Wilderness) of NFPA 1006: Standard for Technical Rescue Professional Qualifications. Classes included in this course are: Rescue Operations for Wilderness, Rescue Rigging, Navigation, Tracking, and Victim Management. This is the NC Technical Rescuer Wilderness Search Specialty program (FIP 6300). This program will meet on October 19,20,21,26,27, and 28, 2012. The Friday night classes begin at 6pm and run to 10pm. The Saturday and
Sunday classes begin at 8am and run until. During the second Saturday night students will be required to build and stay in an improvised shelter overnight. No room reservations will be required for the second weekend as a location has been reserved which provides lodging. Students who wish to
camp during the first weekend can do so free of charge at the college. Dates: Fri. Oct 19, 2012 6pm to 10pm
Sat. Oct 20, 2012 8am until Sun. Oct 21, 2012 8am until Fri. Oct 26, 2012 6pm until Sat. Oct 27, 2012 8am until
Sun. Oct 28, 2012 8am until Location: Surry Community College
630 S. Main St., Dobson NC 27017— Emergency Services Training Center For registration and information refer to the TERMS website on the
last page of this newsletter,
TECHNICAL RESCUER: WILDERNESS
Who is organizing this event? This annual student conference is sponsored by the Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine (ACWM). Each year a different university hosts and organizes the conference.
When: March 3-4, 2012 Where: Wake Forest School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC Only $40 Small Groups Session Saturday:
When breaks come your way: Ski and Snowboard Injuries Rig to Flip, dress to swim: Emergencies on the River Dislocations and Fracture Treatment
Jump in with both feet: A primer on frost bite and trench foot Over the handlebar: Common mountain biking injuries Osteopathic Concepts and Treatment in the Wilderness Setting: Pearl for all practitioners
All bleeding stops eventually: Techniques for hemorrhage control Dental Trauma: All I want for X-mas is my two front teeth. When Lightning Strikes Current concepts in Hypothermia care
Wilderness Medicine in the developing world (When ecotourism goes awry) Altitude illness: How to prevent losing your iphone – a true story Sunday—Outdoor Activities
Information: http://appwildmed.org/conference/about.html
Annual ACWM Southeast Student Wilderness
Medicine Conference 5th Annual Conference (2012)
THREAT TO GPS USE
The quick summary of below: LightSquared is trying to get GPS receivers put into a category that they are unprotected by FCC rules and hence "are not entitled to interfer-ence protection from LightSquared operations." They have failed every test given by the Air Force Space Command. Should know the answer by March. Stay Tuned JR
Last Friday, one year and a day after the Federal Communications
Commission told startup broadband wireless carrier LightSquared it could
not begin operations until it demonstrated its network did not cause
interference with Global Positioning System receivers, the agency kicked
off a review process requested by the company to determine whether GPS
receivers are entitled to such protection.
On Dec. 20, 2011, LightSquared filed a petition
<http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7021751567> with FCC
seeking a ruling that commercial GPS receivers fit the commission's
description of unlicensed Earth stations or unlicensed wireless systems
such as Wi-Fi networks and hence "are not entitled to interference
protection from LightSquared operations."
FCC on Friday initiated
<http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2012/db0130/DA-12-
103A1.pdf> a public comment period on the petition, with replies due
March 15. The agency said LightSquared "in essence" seeks a declaratory
ruling that if its terrestrial network operates "in accordance with the
commission's technical parameters, commercially available GPS devices
are not protected against harmful interference" caused by those operations.
operations.
THIS ARTICLE WAS FORWARDED BY JAY ROYSTER
OF CENTRAL NC SAR January 31, 2012
This move comes after LightSquared flunked two rounds of GPS
interference tests managed by the Air Force Space Command and conducted
by the company, the GPS industry and federal agencies, and the company's
battle for a go-ahead has turned into a high-stakes political drama.
On Jan. 13, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter and Deputy
Transportation Secretary John Porcari said the tests last fall at White
Sands Missile Range, N.M., showed "there appears to be no practical
solutions or mitigations that would permit the LightSquared broadband
service, as proposed, to operate in the next few months or years without
significantly interfering with GPS. As a result, no additional testing
is required at this time."
LightSquared blasted the Space Command tests "as rigged by manufacturers
of GPS receivers and government end users to produce bogus results" in a
Jan. 18 press release
<http://www.lightsquared.com/press-room/press-releases/former-fcc-chief-
engineer-and-lightsquared-question-validity-of-test-results-rigged-by-gp
s-industry-insiders/> .
In September 2011, Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Texas, and the six other
Republican members of House Science, Space and Technology Committee
charged <http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20110921_2983.php> that the
Obama administration tried to soften the testimony of Gen. William
Shelton, commander of Space Command, who was critical of LightSquared
and its potential for interfering with military GPS receivers.
LIGHT-SQUARED CONTINUED Page 2
Last week, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, accused
<http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20120123_5611.php> LightSquared's
backers, including Philip Falcone, chief executive officer of Harbinger
Capital, which has invested more than $3 billion in the wireless
network, of pressuring him into giving up an investigation into the
company.
Despite all this political maneuvering, FCC said Friday that it still
has not resolved the key issue regarding LightSquared: whether or not
its planned network of 40,000 cellular transmitters interfere with GPS
In addition, FCC said it is hamstrung by language in the 2012
Consolidated Appropriations Act
<http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr2055enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr2055enr.
pdf> , which prohibits it from using any funds made available by that
act for operation of the LightSquared network until the company has
resolved "concerns of potential widespread harmful interference by such
commercial terrestrial operations to commercially available Global
Positioning System devices."
FCC said the petition is related to the 2012 appropriations law and the
ongoing interference resolution process, and it has incorporated the
company's pleading into its LightSquared docket
<http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment_search/execute;jsessionid=T45fzQbyR4g4QJ1mwJpN32mHqFD6WwWFnD1GT1j5zzXypvph8dkG%211319056511%21NONE?procee ding=11-109&applicant=&lawfirm=&author=&disseminated.minDate=&disseminat
ed.maxDate=&recieved.minDate=8%2F2%2F10&recieved.maxDate=&address.city=&
address.state.stateCd=&address.zip=&daNumber=&fileNumber=&submissionType
Id=&__checkbox_exParte=true> , which has 3,600 filings to date.
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LightSquared based its petition on a 1979 FCC order, which said
receive-only satellite Earth stations did not have to be licensed. The
company maintains that order made it clear "deployment of unlicensed
satellite receivers must occur only on a nonprotected basis . . .
without recourse against the licensed operator who is purportedly
causing the interference."
Although the 1979 order dealt with large satellite dishes, LightSquared
in its pleading interpreted the order to include small commercial GPS
receivers. According to LightSquared: "Manufacturers and users of
unlicensed receivers lack standing to file complaints or other pleading
seeking 'protection' from allegedly incompatible operations" in adjacent
bands.
Jim Kirkland, vice president and general counsel of Trimble Navigation,
a member of the GPS industry group Coalition to Save Our GPS, said in an
emailed statement that "LightSquared's petition for a declaratory ruling
offered nothing beyond the revisionist history and gross
mischaracterization of prior FCC decisions that has been the crux of its
case all along, and the fact that LightSquared and its predecessors have
never been allowed to interfere with GPS, as the[FCC] International
Bureau reconfirmed in its January 2011 waiver order, will again be
highlighted in this proceeding
LIGHT-SQUARED CONTINUED Page 4
ICS-300 - Intermediate Inci-
dent Command System for Expanding Incidents
This course provides training on and resources for personnel requiring
advanced application of the Incident Command System (ICS).
Dates: Mon. Mar 12, 2012 0800-1700
Tue. Mar 13, 2012 0800-1700
Wed. Mar 14, 2012 0800-1700
Location: EBCI
EBCI EOC 282 Seven Clans Lane, Cherokee NC 28719
NCICS-100 and ICS-200 are pre-requisites for this course, and may be
completed online through FEMA's Independent Study (http://
www.training.fema.gov/IS/).
For registration and information refer to the TERMS website at
the end of this newsletter.
HART Team lifts a hypother-
mic patient, lost 6 days off
the Blue Ridge Parkway from
the Stone Mountain State
Park backcountry, November
2011.
ICS-300 - Intermediate Incident Command System for Expand-
ing Incidents
This course provides training on and resources for personnel requiring
advanced application of the Incident Command System (ICS).
Dates: Mon. Feb 27, 2012 8:00 am-
Tue. Feb 28, 2012 8:00 am -
Wed. Feb 29, 2012 8:00 am-
Location NC Civil Air Patrol
3520 Alamance Road, Burlington NC 27215
NCICS-100 and ICS-200 are pre-requisites for this course, and may be
completed online through FEMA's Independent Study (http://
www.training.fema.gov/IS/).
This is an NCEM State Sponsored class and travel reimbursement
is available for eligible students.
For registration and information refer to the TERMS website at
the end of this newsletter.
ICS-300 - Intermediate Incident Command System for Expand-
ing Incidents
This course provides training on and resources for personnel requiring
advanced application of the Incident Command System (ICS).
Dates: Fri. Mar 16, 2012 6pm-10pm
Sat. Mar 17, 2012 9am-5pm
Sun. Mar 18, 2012 8am-3pm
Location McDowell High School
600 McDowell High Dr, Marion, NC
NCICS-100 and ICS-200 are pre-requisites for this course, and may be
completed online through FEMA's Independent Study (http://
www.training.fema.gov/IS/).
For registration and information refer to the TERMS website at
the end of this newsletter.
ICS-400 - Advanced Incident Command System Command and
General Staff - Complex Incidents
This course is designed to explain how major incidents engender special
management challenges, describe the circumstances in which an Area
Command is established, and describe the circumstances in which mul-
tiagency coordination systems are established.
Dates: Mon. Feb 20, 2012 0800
Fri. Feb 24, 2012 0800
Location Fayetteville Fire Station 14
632 Langdon Street, Fayetteville NC 28301
ICS 300 is a pre-requisite for this course.
For registration and information refer to the TERMS website at
the end of this newsletter.
ICS-400 - Advanced Incident Command System Command and
General Staff - Complex Incidents
This course is designed to explain how major incidents engender special
management challenges, describe the circumstances in which an Area
Command is established, and describe the circumstances in which mul-
tiagency coordination systems are established.
Dates: Thu. Mar 01, 2012 8:00 am-
Fri. Mar 02, 2012 8:00 am -
Location NC Civil Air Patrol
3520 Alamance Road, Burlington NC 27215
ICS 300 is a pre-requisite for this course.
This is an NCEM State Sponsored class and travel reimbursement
is available for eligible students.
For registration and information refer to the TERMS website at
the end of this newsletter.
ICS-400 - Advanced Incident Command System Command and
General Staff - Complex Incidents
This course is designed to explain how major incidents engender special
management challenges, describe the circumstances in which an Area
Command is established, and describe the circumstances in which mul-
tiagency coordination systems are established.
Dates: Sat. Mar 17, 2012 9am-5pm
Sun. Mar 18, 2012 8am-2pm
Location McDowell High School
600 McDowell High Dr, Marion, NC
ICS 300 is a pre-requisite for this course.
For registration and information refer to the TERMS website at
the end of this newsletter.
May 18-20 SAREX— National Park
Service Simulation, Blue Ridge
Parkway, just north of NC border
Upcoming Event –More Info to Follow
ICS-300 - Intermediate Incident Command System for Expand-
ing Incidents
This course provides training on and resources for personnel requiring
advanced application of the Incident Command System (ICS).
Dates: Tue. May 01, 2012 0900 - 1700
Wed. May 02, 2012 0900 - 1700
Thu. May 03, 2012 0900 - 1300
Location Wake County Commons Building
4011 Carya Drive, Raleigh NC 27610— EMS Training Center (basement)
ICS-100 and ICS-200 are pre-requisites for this course, and may be
completed online through FEMA's Independent Study (http://
www.training.fema.gov/IS/).
For registration and information refer to the TERMS website at
the end of this newsletter.
National Association for Search and Rescue
http://www.nasar.org
North Carolina Search and Rescue Advisory Council
http://www.ncsarac.com
TERMS—NC Div. Emergency Management
http://terms.ncem.org/TRS/
Investigating a backcountry
campsite during the Western NC SAR Exercise, Steele Creek vicini-
ty, Pisgah National Forest.
Key Websites
NCSARAC President Wike Graham—
NC Office of the State Fire Marshal Fire and Rescue Training
Specialist Shannon Oorndoff - [email protected]
NC Division of Emergency Management Emergency Services
Group Supervisor Todd Brown— [email protected]
Key Contacts
Rutherford SAR prepares to look
for a 3 day missing Boy Scout on
Blue Ridge Parkway, March 2007,
North Carolina Wilderness Search and Rescue
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