For the first time in nearly 20 years, teams from across northern British Columbia met together to train and network at the BCSARA sponsored Conference titled: “Northeast meets Northwest: SAR beyond Hope: from May 2-4, 2014. Organized by two BCSARA directors from Cariboo-Chilcotin, Trent Blair, and Bulkley-Nechako, Chris Mushumanski, it was very well received. Did you know, the …
Search and Rescue New Initiatives Call For Proposals 2015-2016 Emergency Management BC (EMBC) and the BC Search and Rescue Association (BCSARA) will be submitting applications to the National Search and Rescue Secretariat (NSS) New Initiatives Fund (SAR NIF) for fiscal year 2015-2016. Last year EMBC submitted a NIF application to update the BC GSAR rope …
The first SAR Academy is now complete. 10 registered student candidates were successful in achieving their GSAR certification, their WSBC level 1 First aid, CPR C and their Transport Endorsement over the 160 + hours devoted over the past two weeks of Spring Break. The instructional staff including Scott Larsen, Darlene Berry, Chris Smith, Rob …
Monday April 14 was election day for the BCSARA Executive Officers with Regional Directors and Agency Representatives voting on candidates for President, Vice-President and Secretary. The following people were elected and will take office at the BCSARA Annual General Meeting in June: President – Chris Kelly (formerly of Campbell River SAR) Vice-President – Colin Wiebe …
Please join us in congratulating two well deserving BC SAR Volunteers on being recognized by our Provincial Government with the 2014 Public Safety Lifeline Awards. These will be awarded officially in May to Jack Bryceland of Chilliwack SAR for contributions to SAR and to Ron Royston of North Shore Rescue for Lifetime Achievement. More details …
April 6-12 is recognized nationally as “Volunteer Week” in Canada and the BCSARA wants to extend our deepest appreciation to the roughly 2500 SAR Volunteers on the 80+ SAR Groups in British Columbia. Each of our members provide a significant part towards the safety of each other, our citizens and visitors from around the world …
We are happy to announce that Deb Kitchener of Comox Valley SAR was acclaimed as the BCSARA Treasurer. Deb will take office at our AGM in June. Mario Levesque of Hope SAR was acclaimed in the by-election that was recently held for our Fraser Valley Region due to a vacancy in that region. Mario was …
BCSARA is very pleased to announce that approval has been received for funding under the Search and Rescue New Initiatives Fund (SAR-NIF) for implementing new standards for Swiftwater rescue in the province. This 2 year $722,000 project starts April 1st and includes; developing on-line training for the awareness level, a provincial meeting of Swiftwater teams …
The following election results have been received from our Returning Officer. North-East Region – Greg Taylor North Island Region – Grant Cromer Sea to Sky Region – Sandra Riches All candidates in the 3 regions have been notified personally of the results by phone. Congratulations to the successful candidates and thank-you to those candidates who …
BCSARA is moving, effective April 1, 2014! After decades of a great relationship with the JIBC where our administration support, first Linda West and recently Sandra Riches have been included within their staff, we are striking out on our own. Since we learned a couple of months ago that a change had to happen we …