Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group

  • Canine snow
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  • AMRG PSP
  • Rappelling
  • Mellow Running
  • Tasha
  • Bridge Rescue
  • team with STAT
  • Rescue team
  • Rescue above the point

Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group (AMRG ), Station 582, is an all-volunteer search and rescue (SAR) team based in Pittsburgh that has offered support to government agencies responsible for missing, lost, and injured person incidents since 1985. AMRG will help locate, access, stabilize, and transport patients in wilderness and suburban settings. AMRG will also aid in searches for suspected crime victims and evidence searches. These services are provided at no charge. AMRG's primary response area is Allegheny County and the Region 13 area of southwestern Pennsylvania. We will also provide mutual aid in the surrounding areas in West Virginia, Ohio, and Maryland. AMRG provides the volunteer component of the Allegheny County Child Abduction Response team and is a member of the Pennsylvania Search and Rescue Council, the Appalachian Search and Rescue Conference, and is the only team in the state of Pennsylvania that is accredited by the Mountain Rescue Association. 

 
 

Please contact us for further information about AMRG services, meetings, activities, or other non-emergency issues.

Contact Us

Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group
1800 Murray Ave #81103
Pittsburgh, PA 15217 

412-567-3328

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Operational Members are fully compliant with:

  • MRA Policy 105.1 Mountain Search and Rescue Operational Member
  • ASTM F2209-20 Standard Guide for Training of Land Search Team Member
  • ASTM F2752-19 Standard Guide for Training for Basic Rope Rescuer Endorsement

 

Name:____________________________  Date Completed: ______________

Equipment

                                                                                Checked by:                                          Date:

Clothing

Clothing appropriate to conditions while in AMRG uniform

Adequate footwear

Helmet

Eye Protection (rx glasses with safety lenses or goggles)

Leather gloves

   

Ready Pack

Adequate Pack

Compass

Whistle

Knife

Water container, one liter min.

Food for 48 hours

 

5 Large Trash Bags

Fire Source, waterproof

Headlamp

Second Light Source

Pencil/paper, waterproof

Personal First Aid Kit

Two pairs plastic or vinyl examination gloves

Leather or leather-palmed gloves

Personal meds

Eye protection/goggles  

 

 

Hi-visability Orange Safety Vest  

 

 

QRS Patient Reporting Form (available to print in the AMRG Ops manual)    
AMRG Team SARTopo App on phone    
Optional: An external battery and charging cable for phone    

Survival Skills

Bivvy Completed with carried field gear during Spring/Summer/Fall conditions

Search Skills. 

Effectiviely search as a team member on the follow tasks:

Hasty Search

Sweep Search

Closed-Grid Search

Night Operation

Canine Operation

Understand containment

Clue-Aware

Clue-Handling

Calls and Procedures

Uses Attraction

Navigation

Orients map accurately

Takes and follows bearings

Identifies landmarks and features between map/task area

Demonstrate taking a Backbearing

Navagate a round arge obstacles

Determine location via Triangulation

Declination adjustment

Accurately identifies map position

Uses map UTM coordinates to describe position

Estimates distance travelled

Negotiates formal compass course during the day

Communications Skills

Operates team-issued hand-held radio

Finds correct channel/frequency

Performs Radio check-ins as directed

Demonstrates approproate radio Etiquette and language

Understands proper use of Status codes for when patient is found

Can setup and operate base radio

Rescue Skills                         

Demonstrate packaging patient in litter using the hypothermia wrap

Participate as member of Litter carrying crew

As member of litter crew, demonstrate Rotation

As member of litter crew, demonstrate Toenailing

As member of litter crew, demonstrate Laddering

Demonstrate proper call while carrying litter

Semi-Tech rescue

As a member of a litter, demonstrate carrying a litter down a low-angle slope

As a member of a litter, demonstrate propering putting or tying a harness and attaching to a litter for a low-angle slope

Under the direction of a Rescue member, setup and operate a semi-tech belay for both a raise and lower

Demonstrate proper raise, lower, and belay calls for a semi-tech, low angle system


External Certifications 

NIMS 200 (http://training.fema.gov/IS/crslist.asp)    
MRA Helicopter Rescue Accreditation (http://training.mra.org/)
   
HazMat Awareness ( http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/courseOverview.aspx?code=IS-5.a)    
Introduction to CERT ( https://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/courseOverview.aspx?code=IS-317)    
NASAR Wilderness First Aid or approved equivalent or a current PA State pre-hospital provider license    
Current CPR
   
Current NASAR SARTech II certification    

 

Knots                                                                               Tied                                                        Backed Up                                                    Date

Square

Water

Figure-8 loop

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Figure-8 bend

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Figure-8 follow through

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Double Fisherman's knot/barrel bend

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Prusik

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Seat harness in webbing

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Bowline

Girth Hitch

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Overhand knot

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Tensionless anchor

Wrap 3, pull 2 anchor    
Basket Hitch anchor      

Medical Certification:  ___________________________  Expires: ____________

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Training Officer

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