Rope Rescue Program Update 4th Quarter Report

Review In 2015, Emergency Management BC (EMBC) received funding from the National SAR Secretariat New Initiatives Fund (NIF) for a two-year project to update the rope rescue program for British Columbia SAR groups, which was developed in the 1980s and 1990s but had...

BC SAR Rope Rescue Program Update Project

December 2015 Progress Report Background As reported in October, the NIF funded project to update the BC SAR Rope Rescue Program got underway at the end of September with the hiring of a Project Management Team comprised of Ross Cloutier, Tom Volkers and Phil...

BCSARA and EMBC Submit Applications for NIF Grants

The BC Search and Rescue Association and Emergency Management BC have each submitted significant project proposals to the National SAR Secretariat’s  New Initiatives Funding Program (NIF).  The projects were developed after considerable collaboration with the...