Emergencies

This section provides information about the following topics:

• Cold illnesses
• Cold water immersion
• Emergency communications
  • Overview of emergency communications
  • Mobile phones
  • Personal Locator Beacons (PLB)
  • Satellite phones
  • Satellite trackers with SOS
  • Handheld CB radios
• Emergency shelters
• Heat Illnesses
• Maintaining core temperature
• Snow blindness
• Lost?
• Group member lost
• Bushfire
  • Plan to avoid a bushfire – don’t be there
  • Be vigilant – get to a safe location
  • Last resort – surviving a bushfire
• Smoke from bushfires and fuel reduction burns
• First aid
• Helicopter Rescue
• Snakes

NOTE: Carrying a mobile or satellite phone, PLB or tracker with an SOS button does NOT eliminate the need for a Trip Emergency Contact.