Technical Animal Rescue Course (TAR) - Rescue 3 Certification Course
This is a professional 3-day Technical Animal Rescue Course that offers the best training available. Animal rescue situations occur on a large scale during a major disaster event; but, increasingly, on a small scale, can come as frantic requests made to animal control, fire, search and rescue, and emergency management agencies. Responses may include: vehicle accidents, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, animal cruelty cases, and many other small incidents. The federal government and many states have passed mandates requiring rescue teams to have some form of animal rescue capability.

This course is taught to human rescue standards and exceeds the guidelines or standards for NFPA, FEMA, and NIMS typing.

The Technical Animal Rescue Course is suitable for all adults, trained or untrained. The 3-day course is 1 day of classroom instruction and 2 days in the field. This course and will teach skills such as:

• Rescue philosophy
• Liability and personal/department mitigation
• Size-up
• Hazard assessment
• Management and preplanning
• Panic and behavior
• Communications
• Personal and team equipment
• Animal handling equipment
• Rescue harnessing for animals and humans
• Animal handling and behavior
• Rescuing animals in water and low angle environments
• Rescue scenarios - for local and disaster response problems
  

Next Courses
June 26-28, 2012 (3-day)
Herndon, VA