{"id":1814,"date":"2009-10-26T14:13:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T22:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2009-10-26T16:15:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T00:15:01","slug":"usar-drill-using-to-find-waypoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=1814","title":{"rendered":"USAR Drill Using GPS To Find Waypoints"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>On 10\/26\/09, a practice drill\u00a0put on by\u00a0LBFD&#8217;s USAR team at their\u00a0Station 6. Other Engine Companies from the department as well as some lifeguard units\u00a0also joined in on the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The drill was to find certain markers in and around the Harbor.\u00a0Teams were broken up into groups of 4\u00a0and given\u00a0one handheld GPS unit to locate the markers. The handheld already had pre-programed coordinates to which the teams were to find 4 Waypoints (another term for markers) and report back to the command post. Teams used inflatable boats, lifeguard RB2 as well as FB20.<\/p>\n<p>If this was an actual emergency, the purpose of the GPS units are to mark certain areas of interest to the LBFD units and then return those waypoints back to command post. The coordinates would then be put onto a map and used to figure out search patterns and locations. Incoming companies would then take the GPS handhelds, go to the waypoint, search that particular location and then report any pertinent findings back to the CP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 On 10\/26\/09, a practice drill\u00a0put on by\u00a0LBFD&#8217;s USAR team at their\u00a0Station 6. Other Engine Companies from the department as well as some lifeguard units\u00a0also joined in on the exercise. The drill was to find certain markers in and around the Harbor.\u00a0Teams were broken up into groups of 4\u00a0and given\u00a0one handheld GPS unit to locate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drills-uncategorized-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}