Light Disaster Search and Rescue (LDSAR) is the ability to do relatively uncomplicated search and rescue procedures for victims and survivors in situations that would pose minimal risk to the rescuer and that can be accomplished with bare hands, simple tools, and special techniques.

It is also getting organized after a disaster to help the survivors you can, keeping in mind the safety of rescuers and doing the most good for the most people. It is usually accomplished by friends, relatives, and co-workers.

It is also providing situational awareness to incident command and/or the jurisdiction's emergency operations center (EOC) to acquire the help required.

WHY LIGHT DISASTER SEARCH AND RESCUE (LDSAR)?

The main purpose of government (and rescue) is to do the most good for the most people. Light LDSAR can address helping 80% of survivors instead of the 5% rescued by highly trained rescue teams (HUSAR).

The case studies are clear: friends, family, coworkers, people who just happened to be there when the disaster occurred and the initial first response rescue most of the people who are saved in disasters. Highly trained resources rescue only a small percentage of survivors.

That is why Light LDSAR training is so important for the community and for the safety of rescuers. It validates the principle that some training for a lot of people is better than a lot of training for some people.

Train the trainer course available.