This one-of-a-kind hands-on interactive course provides firefighters and officers the most comprehensive up to date training involving rope searches when rescuing civilians and distressed firefighters. This all encompassing hands-on training will provide you and your department the confidence in establishing search rope procedures and their rescues. The course covers all areas of large area searches such as proper rope bag systems, tether searches, interior and exterior anchoring, thermal imaging, team searches, minimum manning searches, air management, sectoring structures and accountability, large area RIT deployments as well as civilian and distressed firefighter retrievals involving deployed search lines. This physically and mentally demanding program has been recognized by firefighters throughout the country as the ultimate in search methods when it comes to large area structures.