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Title: OPERATIONALIZING AVALANCHE-TERRAIN SAR DECISIONS: THE KING COUNTY WINTER RESPONSE TEAM MODEL
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Erik Olson, Brad Hefta-Gaub, Jim Hirshfield
Description: Avalanche-terrain Search and Rescue (SAR) missions in King County, Washington occur across a large and complex operational area. Potential missions sp...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.3.pdf
Keywords: search and rescue, avalanche terrain, mission planning, incident command, avalanche forecasting
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Title: SUPPORTING PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE IN MOUNTAIN PROFESSIONALS: EARLY PEER SUPPORT FOLLOWING CRITICAL INCIDENTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jan Neuspiel
Description: Mountain professionals, including avalanche forecasters, ski patrollers, mountain guides and helicopter and cat ski operators amongst others work in e...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.38.pdf
Keywords: critical incident stress management, peer support, mountain operations, psychological resilience, critical incident response
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Title: DEVELOPING AN AVALANCHE RESCUE PROGRAM FROM SCRATCH IN A COUNTRY WITH LIMITED AVALANCHE INCIDENT HISTORY - CASE RESCUE SERVICES OF LAPLAND
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Joonas Kortelainen, Risto Tolonen
Description: In avalanche search and rescue response, an effective avalanche rescue program and response plan are essential to guarantee efficient rescue and prote...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P10.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, incident, iso 31000, risk management
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Title: THE INCIDENT SUPPORT TOOL: A NOVEL FRAMEWORK FOR ENHANCING AVALANCHE RESPONSE OPERATIONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Laura McGladrey , Gabriel Benel, Dr. William Mundo, Isabelle Trachtenberg, Dr. Laura Maguire
Description: Avalanche response and forecasting operations often involve complex decision making before, during and after an incident. Responders navigate challen...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P11.2.pdf
Keywords: incident support tool, stress, injury, avalanche work
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Title: A FRAMEWORK FOR RESOURCE TYPING ORGANIZED AVALANCHE RESCUE TEAMS BASED ON THE NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (NIMS) FRAMEWORK AND THE INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM (ICS) BY USING RESOURCE TYPING TOOLS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Jim Donovan
Description: One of the tenets of the National Incident Management System (NIMS)/Incident Command System (ICS) is using the concept of resource management which en...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.59.pdf
Keywords: organized avalanche rescue, avalanche rescue, incident management
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Title: Changing Our Culture: Creating a Post Avalanche Incident Support System
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Madeleine Martin-Preney
Description: Creating a conscientious support system for those who have been involved in avalanche incidents will greatly benefit our community of avalanche profes...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P4.11.pdf
Keywords: support system, avalanche incident, trauma, shame culture
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Title: Avalanche Rescue: The United States Experience, 1999/00 to 2008/09
Date: 2010
Authors: Dale Atkins
Description: Avalanche accidents and fatalities have been increasing over the years, and experience continues to show time as the enemy of the buried avalanche vic...
Object ID: ISSW_O-057.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, incident, rescue, self rescue, companion rescue, organized rescue, injuries, deaths
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Title: Patroller Down: Rescue, Documentation and Resulting Operational Changes
Date: 2010
Authors: Michael Ferrari
Description: By the start of February 2007, the snowpack at Mt. Rose in the Sierras was atypically shallow and weak. After the first significant storm cycle of th...
Object ID: ISSW_P-099.pdf
Keywords: rescue, the chutes, atypical snow conditions, incident form
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Title: Rationale and Models for Transition of Management of Avalanche Rescues from the Three Stage Model to the Incident Command System
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Drew Davis, Dale Atkins
Description: In 2003, US Presidential Homeland Security Directive 5 created the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and required the use of the Incident Com...
Object ID: P__8247.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, nims, incident command system (ics), three stage rescue plan
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Title: Keeping the Tools Sharp: Case Study of Four Avalanche Fatalities During the Snow Season 05-06 in Alaska
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Eeva Latosuo, Paul Brusseau, Bill Romberg
Description: Each human involved avalanche is unique and the outcomes of subject location and recovery are influenced by the availability of search tools and resou...
Object ID: P__8075.pdf
Keywords: alaska, organized avalanche rescue, avalanche training, avalanche incident case studies, avalanche fatalities
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Title: Case Report: Avalanche Accidents for Recreational Users 2005-6 Winter in Japan
Date: 2006
Authors: Azusa Degawa , Shinji Ikeda, Yukinori Saotome
Description: An average number of people who killed by avalanches each year in Japan is approximately ten. This season, however, we had more than ten people kille...
Object ID: issw-2006-618-623.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche incident, avalanche rescue and survival
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Title: Creating or Morphing Avalanche Rescue Plans in Accordance with the Incident Command System
Date: 2004
Authors: Michael Ferrara
Description: Most avalanche rescue plans were developed before 1990. Since that time the Incident Command System has become the standard working model for unified...
Object ID: issw-2004-370.pdf
Keywords: incident command system, rescue, incident
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Title: Avalanche Education Video of the Five European Avalanche Danger Levels
Date: 2002
Authors: Stephan Harvey
Description: To introduce basic knowledge of avalanche danger for off piste areas, the Swiss accident insurance company SlNA produced in close collaboration with t...
Object ID: issw-2002-242-243.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche incident, avalanche prevention, avalanche forecast, avalanche bulletin, avalanche danger degree, avalanche video, avalanche education
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Title: Avalanche Incidents in Switzerland in Relation to the Predicted Danger Degree
Date: 2002
Authors: Stephan Harvey
Description: All known avalanche incidents from 1987/88 to 1998/99 (12 years) have been analyzed with respect to the scale of avalanche danger of the Swiss avalanc...
Object ID: issw-2002-443-448.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche incident, avalanche accident statistics, avalanche forecast, avalanche bulletin, avalanche danger degree
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Title: Avalanche Accidents in Back Country Terrain of the Swiss Alps: New Investigations of a 30 Year Database
Date: 2002
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Chatrigna Signorell, Manuel Genswein
Description: More than 1000 avalanche incidents involving skiers, snowboarders and mountaineers in the back country terrain of the Swiss Alps have been filed in an...
Object ID: issw-2002-449-455.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche incident, avalanche accident statistics, avalanche forecast, avalanche bulletin, avalanche danger degree
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