Axel Ernir Viðarsson


Axel Ernir Viðarsson

Firefighter and EMT at Akureyri Fire Department. Member of Súlur Rescue team since 2005. SAR instructor at ICE-SAR, The Red Cross and Wilderness Medical Associates. I am an avid mountaineer and enjoy myself the most running in the wilderness.

Tracking in the Urban setting

22 Oct 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

In this lecture I will discuss a search for an Alzheimer patient last winter. Very few clues were available at the start of the search. Tracking from the IPP resulted in the patient being found after 3 km of tracking in a densely populated urban area. I will walk us through the timeline and discuss what was well done and what could have been done better.