Search and rescue team assisting a person on a litter in a grassy area.

Search and Rescue Training

Learn essential SAR Skills and build your operational knowledge

Over 40 Hours of SAR Training

at your fingertips

Base Medical’s library of online courses are accessible anytime, self-paced, and full of important content curated by SAR professionals. With accessible SAR training online, Base Medical is elevating the profession.

Courses are available through both subscription and on-demand access. With a team or individual subscription, you’ll have access to our library of 25+ courses (and growing), covering topics such a as:

  • Land navigation and GPS

  • Radio use and communication

  • Legal concepts and risk mitigation

  • Wilderness medicine for SAR providers

  • Incident Command System (ICS)

  • Search tactics

  • Crime scene operations

  • Helicopter safety

  • Knots

  • Litter packaging

  • Plus lots more!

SAR Training Online

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Rescue workers with helmets and gear at an outdoor location, featuring a patch reading 'King County Explorer Search & Rescue' on a red jacket.

SAR Training FAQ

Join over 3000 SAR responders from more than 22 counties

King County SAR Association

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Cibola SAR

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La Plata County SAR

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Washoe County SAR

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Las Animas County SAR

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Jefferson County SAR

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  • All Base SAR courses are included in team access subscriptions. A list of courses is below, with no courses being added regularly as new requests come in and new content becomes relevant.

    • SAR Land Navigation

    • SAR Helicopter Operations

    • Health and Fitness for SAR responders

    • Helicopter Operations

    • GPS and Satellite Navigation

    • Common Knots in Rescue

    • Understanding Radios for SAR

    • Litter Packaging and Evacuation

    • Field Search Tactics

    • ICS and Professionalism

    • Basic SAR survival

    • Firearm Safety

    • Flexible Litters

    • SAR Legal Concepts

    • Crime Scene Investigation

    • Working with K9’s

    • Risk Management and Decision Making in SAR

    • Gear and Clothing for SAR

    • Mental Health for SAR Responders

    • Wilderness Medicine

    • New courses added regularly

  • The Base Medical SAR training program is perfect for both new and seasoned SAR responders. Courses are designed to be accessible but challenging, with an emphasis on content that is most relevant to folks working in a SAR capacity.

    Our program is available as a team subscription or as a an individual subscription as well as through on demand single-purchase courses.

  • Yes! If you have a specific training need, our team can assist in designing and creating a course. Our education platform allows for collaboration on modules and our team of professionals is available to offer support to our affiliated teams.

  • Our online SAR courses have been designed to meet or exceed requirements for:

    • NASAR

    • NFPA

    • ASRC

    • State SAR programs

    These courses can also be used for continuing education credits for NASAR SARTECH renewal. NASAR additionally recognizes the helicopter course as meeting the aviation safety prerequisite for SARTECH programs.

  • Each course varies in length from 30 minutes to several hours. All courses are self-paced, though, so you can move through the content at a speed that is most appropriate for you.

What Our Teams are Saying

  • "Base Medical SAR programs are such an excellent resource, especially for those of us who look for training above and beyond our monthly team trainings.  Thank you for enriching my role as a SAR responder in a relevant and economical way.  I appreciate it!!"

    -Jill Oie, Elkhorn SAR, Montana

  • "Base Medical presented good ideas around decision-making. This course and your Helo course ought to be mandatory for many units."

    -Bob Coleman, King County SAR, Washington

  • "This course was excellent for beginners like myself. Covering all areas of safety, it explained everything in great detail. I highly recommend this course for beginners, as well as seasoned SAR team members with helicopter experience".

    -Stephanie Phillips, Indiana Search & Response Team

  • "The quiz was challenging, and appropriately, especially in the coordinate conversions, which give people trouble all the time."

    -Tod Schimelpfenig, Fremont County SAR, Wyoming

  • "I was really appreciative to have taken this course and excellent need to know advice for when searching."

    -Joyce Courtoreille, Sundre Search and Rescue, Alberta, Canada

  • "So much more than a LZ safety course. Gives good insight to why you need to follow specific procedures. Job well done. Thank you."

    -Don Dragon, Jr, EMS, Rhode Island

  • "More in-depth than SAR Radio classes I have taken in past. Nice format for online class, with the video sections explaining concept and showing examples."

    -Donna Cramer, Alaska Solstice Search Dogs

  • "We have been slowly reconfiguring our training plan to take advantage of Base Medical training... Self-paced training seems to work better for busy people and weeds out those who are not ready to commit sufficient time to SAR. And we've replaced energy-sapping annual classes with on-demand, consistent course content. Next year's intention is to bring all of our existing members into Base Medical, regularly assigning modules as refresher training to free our monthly meetings for more hands-on work."

    -Matt Stewart, Jefferson SAR, Washington