Teaching an advanced SAR course soon and need a new FA scenario involving 2 subjects and up to 6 rescuers. No evac for 12 hrs. It will be of a WFR level.

Anyone think of a situation thats realistic that a SAR team would come across. I am flat out of scenarios. Need something new.

Anything?

Hound

How about a couple climbers take a fall, landing somewhere hard to reach, with various injuries of your choice?

Or how about?: a couple of people accidentally surprise a Mama and baby grizzly during a backpacking trip, and get mauled.

Or, a couple people go on a hike underprepared, and a nasty storm hits, and they can't expediently get out, and they get hypothermic and get some frostbite?

Or: a tree falls down on a couple in their tent.

Or, a couple people are hiking under a cliff during a small landslide, and sustain injuries from rockfall.

Or a car goes off the road and tumbles down into the ravine, with the passengers injured and trapped inside.

Let me know whether any of those will do, or if you need more.

Cheers, and keep up the good work.

hey evolute....ya got any ideas?..ha..ha..ha.

those are pretty good and realistic.

Those are good basic start points Evo. Some we have done before. I do like the tree on tent idea.

What we do is we come up with the basic idea then we complicate it as the scenario goes on.

Ie; Tommy is hurt and his energy level is low so the rescuers feed him but tommy didnt tell them he was diabetic now he goes into a coma etc...

Mary, is a little upset over tommy and runs away getting more lost then comes back and has a fit. She calms down then goes on a violent rage because she is actually a mental patient who failed to tell us she takes meds and hasn't been on them for 36 hrs. And oh ya she is 4 months pregnant.

At the end of a 12 hr scenario the rescuers need to get drunk and take meds themselves haha. Very realistic as many rescues do not go well for a million reasons.

Hound

Oh, okay:

1) One of the climbers gets loopy and belligerent from the high altitude.

2) The mama bear is still in the woods nearby, and still pissed off.

3) One of the frostbite victims started out already dehydrated, and has now become hypovolemic, and is now starting to go into hypovolemic shock.

4) One of the fallen tree's limbs is impaled through one member of the couple, right next to a major artery.

5) One of the rockslide victims gets a subdural hematoma.

6) The car driver went over the edge due to a grand mal epileptic seizure.

How's that?

To steal something from gray's anatomy, the couple was in the throes when the tree fell and the same limb is impaling them both of them at the same time.

Couple is camping and they take a lightning strike.

Couple is hiking, the husband get bit by a snake, the wife goes for help and gets lost.