Volume 8

Toby Meredith PhD, Elizabeth Cuevas PhDEmail: jsar@journalofsar.comhttps://doi.org/10.61618/KVWX6292 This letter was co-developed by both authors. Following the passing of Toby Meredith during the drafting phase, the final manuscript was completed by his co-author, Elizabeth Cuevas, consistent with the direction they established together. Public use of unmanned aircraft or drones continues to affect emergency response operations in … Read more

Alexandre Sérgio de Oliveira Angelin PhD SMS-UNICAMP/SP®Ednei Fernando dos Santos PhD UNICSUL/SPTiago Regis Franco de Almeida PhD UNIESP/SPMarcelo Donizeti Silva Postdoctoral EERP-USP/SPSchool of Medical SciencesUniversity of Campinas (Unicamp)São Paulo- BrazilEmail alexandreangelin@yahoo.com.br / a271295@dac.unicamp.brhttps://doi.org/10.61618/EFYD7229 Abstract Introduction: Drowning fatalities pose a global public health challenge, particularly in Mass Casualty Incidents in Aquatic Environments (MCI-AqE). Ineffective screening victim … Read more

Katherine Lamb, PhD1, Cecilia Hammar Wijkmark, PhD2 & Ian Greatbatch, PhD3,41 University of Liverpool, UK2 University of Skövde, Sweden3 Aston University, UK4 University of Portsmouth, UKEmail katherine@klambassociates.comhttps://doi.org/10.61618/XAFO8079 Abstract This study examines the integration of Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP) withinthe UK Fire and Rescue Service’s national Effective Command (EC) assessment framework. A total of6,317 … Read more

Christopher J Bennett, PhD1, Jane Hodgkinson, PhD2, Jim Nixon, PhD2,31 Department of Aerospace Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ, USA2 Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, UK (at the time of collaboration)3 Health & Safety Executive, UKEmail bennec28@erau.eduhttps://doi.org/10.61618/SITW4437 Abstract Flight testing of new aircraft, equipment and systems is mandatory in the aviation industry to establishand verify the … Read more

https://doi.org/10.61618/UXQL2693 Welcome to Volume 8, Issue 2 of the Journal of Search and Rescue. This issue brings together work on the risks created by uncoordinated public drone use, new guidance for flight-testing SAR innovations, a proposed triage model for aquatic mass-casualty incidents, and a large-scale review of JESIP performance in UK incident command assessments, all … Read more

Editorial Greatbatch, I ORIGINAL RESEARCH Considerations for flight testing of search and rescue (SAR) innovationsBennett CJ, Hodgkinson J, Nixon J Interoperability in Practice: Evaluating the Application of JESIP Principles in UK Fire and Rescue Incident Command Competence AssessmentsLamb K, Wijkmark CH, Greatbatch I S.T.A.R.A. (Simple Triage Rapid Aid): A new protocolAngelin ASO, Santos EF, Almeida … Read more

https://doi.org/10.61618/UZFP8310 Welcome to the June 2025 edition of the Journal of Search and Rescue. It is with sincere gratitudeand humility that I write this inaugural editorial, having recently joined the editorial board. To beinvited to serve in this capacity is both an honour and a privilege, and I take this opportunity witha strong sense of … Read more

Editorial Newsome, A. ORIGINAL RESEARCH Head, Belt, Boots: Obtaining Consistent Probability of Detection in Human Visual SearchChiacchia, KB, Billings, HJ, and Houlahan HEProbability Modelling for Optimization of Evidence SearchesGuy Mansfield, G, Rosenberg, E, Decker, K and Templin, P LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter To the Editor: Australian Search Urgency Assessment FormWhitehead, J

Jim Whitehead, PhDEmail: ssarcoqld@hotmail.comhttps://doi.org/10.61618/SJLE4240 Abstract The Australian Search Urgency Assessment (SUA) form is used by search coordinators as a meansof determining the level of response to a Search and Rescue (SAR) incident.A recent inquest into the death of a young snowboarder and the use of the SUA highlighted the needfor this form to be regularly … Read more

Guy Mansfield PhD, Eric Rosenberg BA, Kathleen Decker BA and Peter Templin BSWashington State SAR Planning UnitUSAEmail jgmansfield@msn.comhttps://doi.org/10.61618/RYXP8966 Abstract Evidence searches (seeking human remains or objects related to criminal cases) havecharacteristics that differ from searches for lost persons. Often, evidence searches arefocused on relatively small areas and seek hard-to-detect objects that may have been initiallyconcealed … Read more