ERI Books
We are pleased to provide you with details concerning our books, as well as other essential publications, training aids and videos that we feel are up-to-date professional products relating to search and/or rescue, emergency preparedness, or survival education. New publications and other resources will be added to our menu as they become available or are re-written/updated from our previous inventory library that was formerly advertised under the banner of Emergency Response Publications.
Lost Person Behaviour - A Search and Rescue Guide on Where to Look - For Land, Air and Water by Robert J. Koester
Cost £28.00 including postage in UK
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Lost person behavior is the cornerstone of search and rescue efforts. Based upon a landmark study, this book is the definitive guide to solving the puzzle of where a lost person might be found. Nowhere else is it possible to learn about the latest subject categories, behavioral profiles, up to date statistics, suggested initial tasks, and specialized investigative questions. Whether the subject is underground, underwater, under collapsed rubble, on land or has fallen from the sky, this book delivers what search managers need.
Lost Person Behavior provides the reader with:
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The Handbook for Managing Land Search Operations (Revised)Cost £27.00 including postage in UK
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The latest and most comprehensive handbook for the SAR Manager or Overhead Team Members who have to do the job on scene. This latest Revision provides comprehensive updates on lost and missing person behaviour along with suggestions, hints, reminders, forms and charts for those responsible to run a search for a missing person. The new section on POD deals with the latest research on the tie-in between vision, detection and programming searchers in the field. This new 424 page handbook has photos, and loads of suggestions, helpful hints, reminders, forms and charts essential to running a search. It was written to be used at search base and requires basic knowledge of search theory as well as the search management process. Design features a spiral binding for easy field use. (Size: 5½X8½in.) Handbook Contents
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The Textbook for Managing Land Search OperationsCost £34.00 including postage in UK For UK purchases by credit card or Please email for purchases from outside the UK due to higher delivery charges. To purchase by alternative methods such as payment by cheque, BACS or purchase order or company order, please send email with order details. |
The comprehensive Text for SAR Managers & OverheadTeam members who have the responsibility to run searches. This is a completely rewritten, and reorganized textbook for the course 'Managing Land Search Operations'. This book takes the place of the original document 'Search is An Emergency' initially published by the Emergency Response Institute and later by Emergency Response International. The foundation material contained in this book has been the cornerstone for land search coordinators for over three decades in thirteen countries. If you an instructor, Search Manager, or Overhead Team Member in local or regional search operations, this is a must have text. Previous versions of this book entitled 'Search is an Emergency', have been the 'definitive choice' of land search coordinators for over three decades. Recently rewritten and with a new title, this text has been used by the U.S. Park Service, SAR Coordinators throughout the U.S. and Canada as well as Police personnel and SAR Volunteers in the United Kingdom, Iceland, Sweden, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Kosova and Croatia. This new book was written to be used as the supportive text for the course 'Management of Land Search Operations' conducted by Emergency Response International. Textbook Contents
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Foundations for Awareness, Signcutting and Tracking by Robert SpeidenCost £34.00 including postage in UK For UK purchases by credit card or Please email for purchases from outside the UK due to higher delivery charges. To purchase by alternative methods such as payment by cheque, BACS or purchase order or company order, please send email with order details.
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This tracking textbook prepares the reader in the basic principles of visual human tracking as they apply to a SAR mission. For anyone who needs to interpret and follow human tracks or sign, this book is for you. In fact, anyone who steps out into the field will become a better searcher, if they learn and use the material in this book.
The book will aid in answering "What happened here?" and "Who made this track?" Through explanations, illustrations, and pictures from actual searches, this book describes methods and techniques used by tracking personnel to do the following:
The book serves as the textbook for the 50-hour Field Team Signcutter course certified by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management. Each chapter lists the standards used in the curriculum. Paperback, 8.5 x 11 inches, 268 pages, 110 illustrations, 61 photographs, 50 drawings, 6 color plates, index, references, and Glossary. ISBN: 978-0-9817686-0-1 |
Urban Search: Managing Missing Person Searches
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By Christopher S. Young and John Wehbring You will learn how to:
"This is a solid gold piece of reference material that should be in every search manager's primary library...a long awaited and much needed publication for the SAR community." --Robert 'Skip' Stoffel, Emergency Response International "We highly recommend Urban Search. It combines technical and search management expertise into a readable compendium of valuable information in this little known specialty. Young and Wehbring bring a wealth of experience to the fast growing need for urban search capabilities across the United States." --Lois Clark McCoy, President, National Institute for Urban Search & Rescue "A good tool to add to the search manager's tool box when facing the most difficult SAR there is: the job of searching for someone missing in the urban/suburban environment. This well put-together guide covers the practically endless possibilities in this complex environment." --Matt Scharper, California State SAR Coordinator, Governor's Office of Emergency Services, Law Enforcement Branch "A comprehensive guide to the problem of urban searching. Everyone, no matter how experienced, will find something of value in it." --Dave Perkins, The Centre for Search Research, UK "My prediction is that this book will become the world's leading text for urban search within a very short time because of its quality and the operational usefulness of its information." --Ross Gordon, Search and Rescue Institute New Zealand, NZ |
Search WheelCost £15.00 including postage in UK For UK purchases by credit card or Please email for purchases from outside the UK due to higher delivery charges. To purchase by alternative methods such as payment by cheque, BACS or purchase order or company order, please send email with order details. |
The Search Wheel leads students or experienced search planners through the initial response phase of the search. It is lightweight, durable, and waterproof. Side One provides handy information on the steps needed to commit to a search effort and then deploy resources. Simply rotate the search wheel to tackle each critical topic. Topics include the Last known Point, The Hub or IPP, Know Your Subject, Linear Features & Decision Points, Containment, and Hot Spots. Additional information provided on reflex tasking. Side two presents essential information and behavior profiles for the most common lost subject categories. It covers hikers, mountain bikers, despondents, children, dementia, hunters, and climbers. The windows reveal the most current data on distance from the IPP/LKP and where the subject was found for both mountainous and flat terrain. Data taken from the International Search & Rescue Incident Database (ISRID) which contains 50,000 SAR incidents. Find the specific information you need immediately. |
