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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

or [email protected]

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,

North Carolina Wilderness Search and Rescue

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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



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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.


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


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



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




This is an NCEM State Sponsored class and travel reimbursement

is available for eligible students.




ing Incidents



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






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.









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


This is an NCEM State Sponsored class and travel reimbursement

is available for eligible students.









Dates: Sat. Mar 17, 2012 9am-5pm

Sun. Mar 18, 2012 8am-2pm

Location McDowell High School

600 McDowell High Dr, Marion, NC




May 18-20 SAREX— National Park

Service Simulation, Blue Ridge

Parkway, just north of NC border

Upcoming Event –More Info to Follow


ing Incidents



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





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—

[email protected]

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,



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