Terry Yahn, Executive Director of the SAR Volunteer Association of Canada has announced the public review stage of the “GSAR Core Competency Standard” for public review. BCSARA encourages all of our members and/or groups to review this document and provide feedback. From the CSA Group: Public Review of CSA Draft Standard Z1620 Core Competency Standard for Ground Search and Rescue Operations: …
SARxSW 2014 www.SARxSW.ca September 27 – 28, 2014 David Lam Campus of Douglas College, 1250 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam, BC In the late 90’s, early 2000s’s Rick Laing of Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue hosted a series of SARex meetings. These were training events, meetings and presentations that all SAR teams in BC were …
The BC Search and Rescue Association wants to extend our heartfelt congratulations and thanks to Vernon SAR Member Pete Wise who is being recognized by his colleagues this weekend in Vernon for his long service. Pete is an amazing person and if you have ever met him, you are sure to never forget him. At …
The West Kootenay Regional Swiftwater Team had an interesting idea. Let’s invite all the SAR and Fire/Rescue teams in the southeast and south Okanagan who have rafts and cat-a-rafts to set up a rafting weekend to build skills and relationships. The emails went out and the response was good. We had teams from Nelson SAR, …
The British Columbia Search and Rescue Association is pleased to reveal our first promotional video. The video is a short indication to the viewer of what our SAR Groups provide around the province. It was taken from video clips collected during the filming of the television show Callout SAR, and the current Hug A Tree and …
The British Columbia Tracking Association has been busy this spring with three very successful courses completed and three more coming up in the next few weeks open to current SAR Members belonging to a recognized BC SAR Group. Terrace – May 30 to June 1st Creston – June 13th to 15th Mission – June 13th …
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 …