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Emergency Response International, Inc. dba ERI Publications and Training
ERI Publications
Welcome to ERI's publication and bookstore outlet. Every item we sell is up-to-date and professionally done. ERI's products focus on Survival, Search & Rescue and Emergency Preparedness. New publications and resources will be added to our store (www.shop.eri-online.com) as they become available.
Recent Additions...
Field Operations Guide for Search and Rescue Standard Operations Guide for Search and Rescue
By Robert Koester
To order any product, please go to ERI's online store at www.shop.eri-online.com. You can make purchases using VISA or MC from our secure site. You can also send ERI a FAX, purchase order or other buying instructions. All fees are in US$. ERI will charge your card once we know shipping & handling fees, usually just before we ship your order.
ERI will be publishing updates to our own publications as necessary. Find updates here.
The Textbook for Managing Land Search Operations
Written & Edited by Robert C. Stoffel
This is a completely rewritten, and reorganized textbook for the course “Managing Land Search Operations.” This book takes the place of the original document “Search is An Emergency” initially published by the Emergency Response Institute and later by Emergency Response International. The foundation material contained in this book has been the cornerstone for land search coordinators for over three decades in thirteen countries. If you are an instructor, Search Manager, or Overhead Team Member in local or regional search operations, this is a must have text. Spiral bound, 540 pages, 3-hole punched and in 8-1/2X11 or A4 formats.
Pricing:
Click here to order directly from ERI's online store
Download Textbook updates here
Information on Instructor Suite for Teaching the Course "Managing Land Search Operations"
The Handbook for Managing Land Search Operations
Written & Edited by Robert C. Stoffel
The latest and most comprehensive handbook for the SAR Manager for Overhead Team Members who have to do the job on scene. This latest Revision provides comprehensive updates on lost and missing person behavior along with suggestions, hints, reminders, forms and charts for those responsible to run a search for a missing person. The new section on POD deals with the latest research on the tie-in between vision, detection and programming searchers in the field. Spiral bound, 424 pages, 5-1/2" X 8-1/2" compact format makes it ideal for field use.
Pricing:
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Surviving a Wilderness Emergency
By Peter Kummerfeldt, Founder, OutdoorSafe and ERI Instructor
Learn the skills needed to survive an unplanned night out. Surviving a Wilderness Emergency provides a wealth of field tested techniques and procedures to use when you are faced with protecting yourself from the elements. Practical methods of surviving, not primitive skills, are addressed. They include: Survival Psychology, Survival Myths and Misconceptions, Staying Found, Survival Medicine, and much more.
Pricing:
Analysis of Lost Person Behavior -
An Aid to Search Planning
By William G. Syrotuck
This is the original 1976 study done by Bill Syrotuck on Lost Person Behavior. This information is just as useful today as it was when the publication was first published. The book starts out with general aspects of lost person behavior and then examines 229 lost person incidents and suggests how the data can be used to help predict where lost people in similar categories might be found. This is a “must have” reference publication for search managers and planners involved in operational search at the responder level.
Pricing:
Click here to order directly from ERI's online store
Field Operations Guide for Search and Rescue Standard Operations Guide for Search and Rescue
By Robert Koester
Field Operations Guide for Search and Rescue delivers concise easy-to-follow descriptions of Incident Command System (ICS) functions used in search & rescue. The book goes beyond the normal descriptions found in ICS manuals and provides practical insight into the details needed to fulfill functional positions on a search. The writing and layout are clear and easy to follow, perfect for use in the field.
Pricing:
Urban Search: Managing Missing Person Searches in the Urban Environment
By Christopher S. Young and John Wehbring
This book is the first comprehensive guide to
urban search. It compares factors of an urban/suburban incident with a wilderness search, including preplanning, search management, special investigation considerations, unique urban strategy and tactics, use of resources, and documentation.
You will learn how to:
Paperback: 352 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", 39 illustrations
Publisher: dbS Productions
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-879471-38-2
Pricing:
Search Wheel - An Initial Response Search Guide
The Search Wheel leads
students or experienced search planners through the initial response phase of the search. It is lightweight, durable, and waterproof.
Side One provides handy information on the steps needed to commit to a search effort and then deploy resources. Simply rotate the search wheel to tackle each critical topic. Topics include the Last known Point, The Hub or IPP, Know Your Subject, Linear Features & Decision Points, Containment, and Hot Spots. Additional information provided on reflex tasking.
Side two presents essential information and behavior profiles for the most common lost subject categories. It covers hikers, mountain bikers, despondents, children, dementia, hunters, and climbers. The windows reveal the most current data on distance from the IPP/LKP and where the subject was found for both mountainous and flat terrain. Data taken from the International Search & Rescue Incident Database (ISRID) which contains 50,000 SAR incidents. Find the specific information you need immediately. Can be ordered in Miles or Kilometers.
Pricing:
Recent Additions...
Field Operations Guide for Search and Rescue Standard Operations Guide for Search and Rescue
By Robert Koester
To order any product, please go to ERI's online store at www.shop.eri-online.com. You can make purchases using VISA or MC from our secure site. You can also send ERI a FAX, purchase order or other buying instructions. All fees are in US$. ERI will charge your card once we know shipping & handling fees, usually just before we ship your order.
ERI will be publishing updates to our own publications as necessary. Find updates here.
The Textbook for Managing Land Search Operations
Written & Edited by Robert C. Stoffel
This is a completely rewritten, and reorganized textbook for the course “Managing Land Search Operations.” This book takes the place of the original document “Search is An Emergency” initially published by the Emergency Response Institute and later by Emergency Response International. The foundation material contained in this book has been the cornerstone for land search coordinators for over three decades in thirteen countries. If you are an instructor, Search Manager, or Overhead Team Member in local or regional search operations, this is a must have text. Spiral bound, 540 pages, 3-hole punched and in 8-1/2X11 or A4 formats.
Pricing:
- $36.00 Plus Shipping & Handling
- Washington State residents will be charged 8% sales tax.
Click here to order directly from ERI's online store
Download Textbook updates here
Information on Instructor Suite for Teaching the Course "Managing Land Search Operations"
The Handbook for Managing Land Search Operations
Written & Edited by Robert C. Stoffel
The latest and most comprehensive handbook for the SAR Manager for Overhead Team Members who have to do the job on scene. This latest Revision provides comprehensive updates on lost and missing person behavior along with suggestions, hints, reminders, forms and charts for those responsible to run a search for a missing person. The new section on POD deals with the latest research on the tie-in between vision, detection and programming searchers in the field. Spiral bound, 424 pages, 5-1/2" X 8-1/2" compact format makes it ideal for field use.
Pricing:
- $28.00 Plus Shipping & Handling
- Washington State residents will be charged 8% sales tax.
Download Handbook PDF Handbook Flier Here
Click here to order directly from ERI's online store
Surviving a Wilderness Emergency
By Peter Kummerfeldt, Founder, OutdoorSafe and ERI Instructor
Learn the skills needed to survive an unplanned night out. Surviving a Wilderness Emergency provides a wealth of field tested techniques and procedures to use when you are faced with protecting yourself from the elements. Practical methods of surviving, not primitive skills, are addressed. They include: Survival Psychology, Survival Myths and Misconceptions, Staying Found, Survival Medicine, and much more.
Pricing:
- $20.00 Plus Shipping & Handling
- Washington State residents will be charged 8% sales tax.
Analysis of Lost Person Behavior -
An Aid to Search Planning
By William G. Syrotuck
This is the original 1976 study done by Bill Syrotuck on Lost Person Behavior. This information is just as useful today as it was when the publication was first published. The book starts out with general aspects of lost person behavior and then examines 229 lost person incidents and suggests how the data can be used to help predict where lost people in similar categories might be found. This is a “must have” reference publication for search managers and planners involved in operational search at the responder level.
Pricing:
- $15.00 Plus Shipping & Handling
- Washington State residents will be charged 8% sales tax.
Click here to order directly from ERI's online store
Field Operations Guide for Search and Rescue Standard Operations Guide for Search and Rescue
By Robert Koester
Field Operations Guide for Search and Rescue delivers concise easy-to-follow descriptions of Incident Command System (ICS) functions used in search & rescue. The book goes beyond the normal descriptions found in ICS manuals and provides practical insight into the details needed to fulfill functional positions on a search. The writing and layout are clear and easy to follow, perfect for use in the field.
Pricing:
- $10.00 Plus Shipping & Handling
- Washington State residents will be charged 8% sales tax.
Urban Search: Managing Missing Person Searches in the Urban Environment
By Christopher S. Young and John Wehbring
This book is the first comprehensive guide to
urban search. It compares factors of an urban/suburban incident with a wilderness search, including preplanning, search management, special investigation considerations, unique urban strategy and tactics, use of resources, and documentation.You will learn how to:
- Understand your urban environment - residential, retail, business, industrial and/or recreational - and develop preplans accordingly
- Conduct thorough investigations and interviewing - including training search personnel in door-to-door canvassing
- Develop an accurate profile of the missing person using the newest urban specific data
- Use the investigation information and scenario analysis to prevent wasted effort on a non-search
- Working advantageously with the media
- Consider the missing person's use of public transportation
- Train dogs and ground teams to be effective in the urban environment by identifying problems and safety hazards they may encounter
- Manage and evaluate documentation and clue management
Paperback: 352 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", 39 illustrations
Publisher: dbS Productions
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-879471-38-2
Pricing:
- $25.00 Plus Shipping & Handling
- Washington State residents will be charged 8% sales tax.
Search Wheel - An Initial Response Search Guide
The Search Wheel leads
students or experienced search planners through the initial response phase of the search. It is lightweight, durable, and waterproof.Side One provides handy information on the steps needed to commit to a search effort and then deploy resources. Simply rotate the search wheel to tackle each critical topic. Topics include the Last known Point, The Hub or IPP, Know Your Subject, Linear Features & Decision Points, Containment, and Hot Spots. Additional information provided on reflex tasking.
Side two presents essential information and behavior profiles for the most common lost subject categories. It covers hikers, mountain bikers, despondents, children, dementia, hunters, and climbers. The windows reveal the most current data on distance from the IPP/LKP and where the subject was found for both mountainous and flat terrain. Data taken from the International Search & Rescue Incident Database (ISRID) which contains 50,000 SAR incidents. Find the specific information you need immediately. Can be ordered in Miles or Kilometers.
Pricing:
- $15.00 Plus Shipping & Handling
- Washington State residents will be charged 8% sales tax.