Sunshine Coast Search and Rescue

Our very own Joyce and Echo! https://www.coastreporter.net//echo-is-a-pet-first-and-wor

Today the team was dispatched to the head of narrows inlet for an injured female with possible hip fracture. 2 B C ambulance service paramedics along with 3 of our team members flew up the inlet with #airspanhelicoptersltd to package and transport the subject. A great multi agency task that ended with the best possible outcome for our subject. Thanks to #Airspan for their great service and excellent flying by Hannibal.

Sunset on Sunshine Coast is 6:21 pm this weekend. Stay safe out there!

Another successful training weekend for the MIT’s. SAR Med course giving them great training for good medicine in bad places!. Our team has successfully used this training in many tasks to achieve the best possible outcome for our subjects. A great weekend for all that attended

This past weekend our team dog handler, Joyce Tattersall and her dog Echo, hosted a British Columbia Search Dog Association dog practice. 6 dogs, 5 of which are validated in air scenting and 1 dog in training spent the two days track training and searching. The dogs ranged in age from 18 months to 8 years old. With the generous donation of land to use for tracking and searching provided by the residents of Mason road and Heritage road. Our team had a search in this area many years for a missing male. The community was so generous then, and we appreciate their continued support! Dog teams from Powell River, Pemberton, Revelstoke, Surrey and Vancouver Island, as well as a retired RCMP handler and the PDS handler from Squamish attended.

We're excited to announce that we have been awarded an $800 grant from the Sunshine Coast Community Foundation's Sunshine Coast Covid-19 Emergency Relief Fund for the purchase of PPE supplies. These supplies are used by our members and subjects during both training exercises and call-outs. We are grateful for the support from our community and volunteer members during this busy and challenging time.

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Thanks to our members taking on this training!

Shout out to our local Marine SAR Team - Station 12 Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue Station 12 Halfmoon Bay

Called out this afternoon for an injured mountain biker in Sprockids park. We were able to stretcher carry subject out to the waiting ambulance. Thanks to North Shore Rescue for being available and close by on standby if a long line hand been required. Subject was transported to Air Ambulance waiting at Langdale ferry terminal where they were flown to Vancouver with serious injuries.

We're ready and available but please explore later #explorebclater

Update @ 0730 - subjects located and are in good health. Being brought out now. Thanks for all the shares! Teams have been in the field since 1 AM this morning looking for two overdo skiers who’s destination was McNair cabin. Due to avalanche conditions in the area we have not been able to get further into the field as of yet and are waiting for first light so we can access the field by helicopter. We have located the subject truck and are looking for information from anyone that may have run across this couple near or in the McNair cabin area. Please message us if you have any information.

The team had a busy Saturday. The day started with a snow rescue practice at Dakota ridge. Teams did a search for a missing individual. As the teams advanced into the field. Our dog teams successfully found the subjects. Teams then had to improvise a way to extract the injured subjects with what they had in their ready packs. A very successful practice that ended mid day. With practice complete and all gear safely stored back in our vehicles and our ready packs repacked and ...restocked, we then were called out at 7 pm for 3 lost young adults in the Sprockids / Langdale falls area. This wasn’t practice but in fact a real callout. Most of the team had already been out for a 5 hour practice earlier in the day. We responded with two hasty teams and started our search with only cell phone ping coordinates that put our subjects somewhere near the summit trail. We made voice contact with the subjects at approx 10 pm but then had to find a way to get to the subjects as they were in a tough spot. An initial team made their way down through a steep gully and back up the other side and to the subjects. We then had to hIke them back out to the trail system and back down to the parking lot. No easy task with deep snow in the area. All three subjects were in good shape but cold. Teams and subjects arrived at the parking lot at approx 2 am this morning. A very long day for the team. We are all looking forward to some rest today! See more

When we have completed a task, we check our equipment and ourselves, but sometimes there are other people affected by our task. On a recent task, we rescued a female with a broken leg... but in the background there where many people affected by the task.... a school group from our community was at the Batchelor lake cabin at the same time as all the activity with our task. We felt the need as a team to visit these young individuals and make sure that they were doing good. We visited their classroom to give them an update on our subject as well as educate them on safety in the backcountry and answer their questions. A rewarding visit for us as a team and for the next generation of explorers! It isn’t always about searching and rescuing. Sometimes it’s about the simple contact with the people affected by your task! Keep safe out there!

Part of our work involves education through BC AdventureSmart. If you have a group that would like a presentation, please reach out to us.

Video of our subject being hoisted by 442 squadron today from Tetrahedron Provincial Park. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjKa7TL2jOQ