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Your brother-in-law tells you that he and a group of friends are going to be doing some backcountry skiing. You ask him if they know what to do in case of an avalanche. Which of the following responses would indicate to you that your brother-in-law has thought about this possibility?
 
  a. Everyone in the group has a cell phone and an avalanche transceiver.
  b. There are a lot of us in the group, so we should be able to rescue someone ourselves.
  c. Because it is late spring, I don't think we would have much to worry about.
  d. We are not going to a very remote area, so we should be able to have searchers there in a couple of hours.

Question 2

Search and rescue operations consist of which of the following five basic tasks?
 
  a. Information gathering, grid assignments, search, medical treatment, and evacuation
  b. Mobilization, intelligence gathering, containment, search, and rescue
  c. Notification of rescue personnel, perimeter marking, grid assignments, search & rescue, and reporting
  d. Incident Commander assigned, team leaders and teams assigned, grids determined, search & rescue, and reporting



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taylorsonier

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: a

Answer to Question 2

Answer: b




newbem

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Reply 2 on: Jul 2, 2018
:D TYSM


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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