July 22nd 2007
Kamloops Search & Rescue & R.C.M.P. members paddled from
Little Fort to Kamloops Riverside Park- 100kms!! to raise
funds for KSAR's new Command Vehicle. Thanks to all of our
sponsors, family and friends. Daily
News Story.
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PLANE CRASH - McCONNEL LAKE |
by Logan Lake Search and Rescue |
What plane crash you say?? Around 4PM on Saturday February 3rd, Logan Lake Search & Rescue was called out to participate in a "Mass casualty Incident exercise" at McConnell Lake on the Lac La Jeune road. This exercise was organized by the Kamloops Search & Rescue Team and Kamloops EHS Paramedics to test response to an emergency involving large numbers of casualties. The scenario in this case was an aircraft with 14 persons on board going down near McConnel Lake.
Logan Lake SAR dispatched 12 members and their Command vehicle and equipment trailer to the scene. The crash site was determined by receipt of a "distress signal" from the downed aircraft's "ELT" or Emergency Locator Transmitter beacon. Once again Logan Lake SAR figured prominently in this exercise as we were asked to take on the Search Command duties and control of radio communications. Ground Search and Rescue's task was to locate the crash site, find and stabilize casualties, transport EHS Paramedics to the site so they could treat and triage the injured, and finally, to transport patients and paramedics back to the waiting ambulances for further transport to medical facilities.
After both Kamloops and Logan Lake SAR arrived on scene close to the crash site, two combined ground search teams and one mobile team with ATV's and Snowmobiles were quickly formed to head into the crash site to look for survivors and locate and mark the position of the "ELT." Search teams rapidly located the crash site and several "survivors" in various states of medical trauma. It took awhile in the dark, to find all 14 persons, calm them and conduct some basic first-aid until the mobile teams brought in the EHS paramedics to organize a triage system and treat the more serious injuries in preparation for transport. After solving some communication and transportation difficulties, the SAR and EHS teams did a great job of managing the scene and medical situations and in less than 5 hours from the initial callout, all "casualties" had been given initial treatment and were on their way to hospitals.
Even though this was only a simulation for training purposes, it was an excellent exercise which taxed SAR and EHS personnel to the max. All participants in the exercise learned a great deal about their own personal capabilities and the capabilities of each other's organizations as well!! Many thanks should go to those who organized the exercise, EHS personnel who did an excellent job in less-than-perfect conditions, the volunteers who were "casualties" out there in the cold and dark! Of course, the exercise would not have been a success without the dedicated volunteers of Logan Lake and Kamloops Search and Rescue Units - well done ladies and gentlemen!
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Funding Vital to Search and Rescue Groups |
by SUZANNE EVANS, Sun Peaks News |
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For many winter sports enthusiasts there's nothing better than riding through uncharted snow.
Linking turns down steep slopes laden with layers of fine, untouched powder becomes a winter preoccupation. Spending the whole season seeking out the perfect piste-a patch of powder on which to make the first sinuous tracks. But all too often an insatiable appetite for thigh-deep, unblemished snow leads people out of the ski area boundary and into trouble. It's a familiar story that we're all too unhappily aware of-the search for lost skiers and boarders in the maze that is the B.C. backcountry.
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TNRD announces new funding structure for Search and Rescue groups - Sept 1, 2006 |
by TERRY KRESS, Manager Emergency Services, TNRD |
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The board of directors of the TNRD has approved the establishment of a global search and rescue (SAR) grant-in-aid fund to service six teams within the district that meet qualifying criteria.
Volunteer Search and Rescue (SAR) teams in B.C. respond to an average of about 1,000 callouts per year to carry out air, land and water searches under the direction of RCMP and/or local municipal police
departments.
The final details are still being worked out.
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Search for community support pays dividend |
by MIKE YOUDS, Daily News Staff Reporter |
Kamloops Search and Rescue Society has edged a little closer to its daunting goal of a new rescue vehicle but still has a long way to go.
A donation of $1,300 from the Kamloops chapter of Soroptimist International is but one of several recent contributions solicited from the community, Jan
Anton, acting president of the society, said Tuesday.
"We are looking at a brand new rescue truck and that 's around the $80,000 mark," Anton said.
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Kamloops Daily News Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
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Skoatl Mountain Rescue
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