Resource Typing Template
Resource: Wilderness Canine Air Scent
Categories:Transportation (ESF 1) / Communication (ESF 2) / Public Works and Engineering (ESF 3)
Firefighting (ESF 4) / Information & Planning (ESF 5) / Mass Care (ESF 6)
Resource Management (ESF 7) / Health & Medical (ESF 8) / Search & Rescue (ESF 9)
HazMat (ESF 10) / Food & Water (ESF 11) / Energy (ESF 12)
Law Enforcement/Security / Military Support / Public Information
Animals and Agriculture Issues / Volunteers and Donations / Other
Kind:
Team / Equipment / Supplies / Other Single Resource
Aircraft / Personnel / Vehicle
Components and Capabilities:
Components / Metric (s) / Minimum Capabilities
Type I / Type II / Type III / Type IV / Other
Single Resource / Search Capabilities / Capable of search and self sustaining for 72 hours in all weather and low angle wilderness terrain or larger areas of 60+ acres / Capable of searching and self-sustaining for 48 hours in all weather and low angle wilderness terrain or larger areas of 60+ acres / Capable of searching high probability local wilderness terrain for short durations (24 hrs or less) or small areas 40-60 acres / Capable of searching high probability local wilderness terrain for short durations (12 hrs or less) or small areas 40-60 acres / Human Discriminating (Scent Source Necessary)
Single Resource / Search Capabilities / Capable of searching and self sustaining for 72 hours in all weather and low angle wilderness terrain or larger areas of 120+ acres / Capable of searching and self sustaining for 48 hours in all weather and low angle wilderness terrain or larger areas of 120+ acres / Capable of searching high probability local wilderness terrain for short durations (24 hrs or less) or small areas of 60-120 acres / Capable of searching high probability local wilderness terrain for short durations (12 hrs or less) or small areas of 40-60 acres / Non Discriminating (locate all human indication in area)
Comments:
This initial typing was done as single resource as a dog team usually consists of one dog, one handler, and 1-2 support personnel.
Broken into discriminating/non-discriminating air scent single resources.
Please note that many of these resources are capable of searching in a disaster environment such as a wilderness team in outlying areas of a tornado zone, etc. It is critical that canine management personnel knowledgeable in multi-use of canine resources are available to Incident Command. This will not necessarily be reflected in this document. I can speak from personal experience that smaller and larger incidents pull in resources not necessarily “trained” in the environment, but that perform admirably and productively when used.
Additional Single Resources being developed are:
Wilderness Trailing (human discriminating-Scent source required)
Wilderness Tracking (non discriminating-locating strongest track and following w/o scent source)
Avalanche
Cave
Urban Air Scent (human discriminating-Scent source required)
Urban Air Scent (non human discriminating-locate any human source)
Urban Trailing (human discriminating-Scent source required)
Urban Tracking (non discriminating-locating strongest track and following w/o scent source)
Water (moving)
Water (still)
Water (disaster)
Cadaver-Wilderness
Cadaver-Small area
Cadaver-forensic
Cadaver-disaster
USAR-General Collapse/Structure – Local Resource
USAR-General Collapse/Structure – National/International Response-Non FEMA
USAR-General Collapse/Structure - FEMA Type II
USAR-General Collapse/Structure - FMEA Type I
USAR-General Collapse/Structure – Cadaver (covered under cadaver documents as well)
National/international response
FEMA Type I
FEMA Type II
(human remains under disaster cadaver)