ONLINE SAR TEAM TRAINING

Affordable, on-demand SAR education—designed to support team readiness, consistency, and professional development. Built for how teams actually operate.

Join 65 SAR Teams and 5000 SAR responders from 35 counties across the nation..

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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Go Pro with our SAR Team Online Course Access

Give your responders access to a growing library of SAR-specific online courses designed to support field operations, continuing education, and team development.

What SAR Responders Get:

  • Access to 25+ online SAR courses

  • Topics covering SAR operations, safety, coordination, leadership, and specialized response considerations

  • On-demand learning—no scheduling required

  • Content designed to create professional SAR responders, be it volunteer or paid.

Pricing: $12.50 per responder/year

This option is ideal for teams that want flexible, low-cost access to SAR-relevant education without administrative complexity.

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Further options include affordable wilderness medicine training for your entire SAR, including wilderness CPR and American Red Cross CPR. Learn More.

Want More Structure? Add a Custom Team Course Package

While the SAR Team Subscription provides broad access, many teams want clarity around expectations—especially for onboarding and annual training.

The Custom Team Course Package is an optional add-on that organizes SAR courses into a clear, team-specific training bundle.

What the Custom Package Includes:

  • A curated selection of SAR courses based on your team’s needs

  • A standalone training bundle that appears separately on the student dashboard

  • Clear identification of required vs optional courses

  • Simplified onboarding for new responders

  • Reduced admin time for team leadership

  • The ability to add your own team content to the package.

Adding Your Own Team Content may include team SOPs and policies, local hazard and response information, onboarding materials, internal training or reference content. This allows responders to access Base Medical SAR courses and team-specific materials in one place.

Add-On Pricing: $100 per team / year

Ready to Build a Training System That Works for Your Team?

SAR Team Subscription Only

$12.50 per responder per year

Instant access for your team members with you fully in control of enrollment.

SAR Team Subscription + Custom Training Package

$12.50 per responder per year + $100 per year

Custom packages will require 3-4 days to build but team access to SAR course library will be immediate.

30-Day Free Trial

This allows you to vet courses before committing.

Free SAR Courses

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Learn how to handle the initial moments of making first contact with a subject. Including basic first aid.

Subject First Encounter

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Helicopter Safety for SAR

Helicopters are cool and dangerous! Learn how to safely work with and around them.

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Health and Fitness for SAR

Be ready for whatever the mission physically demands.

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SAR Special Subject Populations, Intro to Technical Winter Rescue, and How To Run A SAR Non-Profit courses to be released in 2026!

Explore The Entire SAR Course Library

Prepare

Get yourself mission-ready or review foundational SAR concepts

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Health and Fitness for SAR

Be ready for whatever the mission physically demands.

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Gear and Clothing for SAR

Having the right gear and clothing for SAR missions matters.

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Basic SAR Survival

Learn how to survive when things do not go as planned.

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Mental Health for Responders

Essential knowledge and action for mental health concerns.

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Understanding Radios for SAR

Learn how two-way radios work. Do you copy?

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Firearm Safety for SAR

Learn gun safety and handling concepts.

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Legal Concepts in SAR

This course includes the duty to act, volunteer protection, and more.

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ICS and Professionalism in SAR

Incident Command System principles.

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Risk Management and Decision Making in SAR

Learn how to best manage risk and correct common cognitive errors.

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Cases in SAR Litigation

Learn about common reasons for ligation in SAR

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Safe Trailer Operations for SAR

This Course familiarizes SAR and other Responders with the safe use of a trailer.

Locate

Your ability to quickly locate a SAR subject may mean the difference between life and death

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SAR Land Navigation

This course include compass use, lat/long, UTM, datums, and more.

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GPS and Satellite Navigation

The basics of setting waypoints, creating routes, and track logs.

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Field Search Tactics

Includes clue awareness, basic tracking, and more.

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Working with K9’s in SAR

Learn how to effectively work with search dogs in the field.

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Helicopter RECCO Use for SAR Leaders

Learn more about the powerful capabilities of RECCO in SAR

Access and Treat

Stabilize life-threatening injuries and illness

Two women providing first aid to an injured cyclist lying on the grass with a helmet, backpack, and medical supplies nearby.

Learn how to handle the initial moments of making first contact with a subject. Including basic first aid.

Subject First Encounter

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Wilderness First Aid

Earn your WFA certification remotely - no travel required and still hands-on!

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Wilderness Medicine for Advanced Providers - Introduction

Learn how to work with first responders and EMS and medical guidelines. For Paramedics and above.

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In-house Wilderness Medicine Training for Teams

Become an instructor to provide wilderness medicine training for your team for only $65 per person. Instructors must be WFR or above.

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Crime Scene Operations

Learn the do’s and don’ts of crime scenes

Extricate

Up steep cliffs, across rivers, over boulders, or via air to definitive care

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Helicopter Safety for SAR

Helicopters are cool and dangerous! Learn how to safely work with and around them.

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Common Knots in SAR

From the figure eight to the alpine butterfly, review the most basics knots use in SAR.

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Litter Packaging & Evacuation

Strap them in and haul them out — gently and safely.

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Flexible Rescue Litters

Review how to properly use a SKED, TRS, and MEDSLED!

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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King County SAR Association - Cibola SAR - La Plata County SAR - Washoe County SAR - Las Animas County SAR - Jefferson County SAR -

Join over 3000 SAR responders from more than 22 counties

SAR Training for Teams FAQ

  • All BASE SAR courses are included in team access subscriptions. Courses include:

    • 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

  • 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.

  • SAR training for teams is intended for both volunteer and professional SAR organizations of all sizes. Our courses are designed to cover a broad range of topics that are applicable to those working in many rescue capacities.

  • 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.

  • Yes! Our team will train you to work with our education program so you can build, edit, and share your own courses. This is a great option if you have specific protocols you’d like to include in your training library or needs that are specific to your group.

  • Yes! You will have control of member enrollment and access and see their progress in each course.

  • At the end of each SAR course is an exam. Upon passing the exam. responders will receive a certificate of completion.

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