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Are you a Search and Rescue professional -- either volunteer or paid -- or are you simply interested in reading about searches, rescues, and other SAR topics?
In any case, this is an alphabetical listing of Search and Rescue blogs written by SAR members and organizations, with feeds of their latest posts. You'll then find additional links to Search and Rescue blogs and some recent SAR news articles.
If you have a Search and Rescue blog or know of one I've not included, please leave me a URL in the guestbook below, so I can include the blog feed here.
In any case, this is an alphabetical listing of Search and Rescue blogs written by SAR members and organizations, with feeds of their latest posts. You'll then find additional links to Search and Rescue blogs and some recent SAR news articles.
If you have a Search and Rescue blog or know of one I've not included, please leave me a URL in the guestbook below, so I can include the blog feed here.
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Deb's Search and Rescue Stories
Yep, I'm Deb
And these are my stories as a volunteer with the Coconino County Sheriff's Search and Rescue unit, based in Flagstaff, Arizona. I joined the team in September, 2007, and have been blogging about my experiences on missions, trainings and other SAR-related events since then.
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Learning from Others' Mistakes and Triumphs
Search and rescue and recovery missions from around the world, as well as gear reviews from Hiker Hell
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Raising a Search and Rescue Dog
Follow Grom the dog (Grom means "thunder" in Russian) as he leads his human Search and Rescue partner through adventures in the wilderness looking for the lost in Hound and the Found.
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An excellent weblog for Friends of SAR by the Josephine County, Oregon Search and Rescue team:
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A blog full of mountain search and rescue techniques, tools, news and opinions by Ethan Zook, a volunteer with the Rockingham-Augusta Search and Rescue Team (RASAR), based in Virginia. Ethan is also a firefighter, an urban and wilderness EMT, and a climbing guide and instructor.
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The blog of the Mountain Rescue Association, the oldest SAR organization in the U.S., now with more than 90 certified member teams around the country.
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Professional Trackers is an organization dedicated to the art of tracking, based in Reno, Nevada. They are available to assist any Law Enforcement agencies or search and rescue teams around the world who request their help.
The Professional Trackers blog:
The Professional Trackers blog:
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Rescue Response provides rescue equipment, rope access equipment, rescue training and rope access training to both public and private industry, including but not limited to search and rescue organizations, fire departments, training facilities, tower erector companies, and Federal, State, County and City agencies. I've personally bought technical rescue gear from them through their Rescue Response Gear website.
The Rescue Response blog:
The Rescue Response blog:
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Based in the UK
Robert Bradley is an independent search and rescue consultant, researcher and writer, specializing in the search for missing people, including children, dementia patients and "despondents." He works with law enforcement and Lowland Search and Rescue teams.
Robert is a member of the Institute of Civil Protection and Emergency Management, the Institute for Learning, Oxfordshire Lowland Search and Rescue Team (non-operational) and Sussex Search and Rescue Team (non-operational).
Visit Robert Bradley's Re-Search Website.
Robert is a member of the Institute of Civil Protection and Emergency Management, the Institute for Learning, Oxfordshire Lowland Search and Rescue Team (non-operational) and Sussex Search and Rescue Team (non-operational).
Visit Robert Bradley's Re-Search Website.
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About all things SAR
From featured teams to Search and Rescue in the local, national and international news to SAR technology, book reviews, Search and Rescue skills and more. Guest posts are welcome.
This is the companion blog to the Search and Rescue Stories website.
The SAR Stories News Blog:
This is the companion blog to the Search and Rescue Stories website.
The SAR Stories News Blog:
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All about technical rescue skills, gear and other rope/rock rescue topics.
If the feed isn't working, see The RescueTECH Blog.
If the feed isn't working, see The RescueTECH Blog.
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Whistler Search & Rescue is a 32-member team of highly trained mountain, avalanche and swiftwater rescue personnel in British Columbia, Canada.
Visit the Whistler Search and Rescue home page.
The Whistler SAR Blog:
Visit the Whistler Search and Rescue home page.
The Whistler SAR Blog:
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Check out these links for more SAR Stories and posts about various Search and Rescue topics
- Black Diamond Search and Rescue Council blog
- Black Diamond Search and Rescue Council provides specially trained professional's to find lost or missing people in wilderness, rural or disaster environments. They train Ground Teams , Trackers, and Search Management teams in a wide variety of environments and weather conditions, including farmland, wilderness, and urban areas, deploying their resources when requested throughout Virginia and adjacent States.
- Decisions for Heroes Blog
- Decisions for Heroes is a collaborative rescue team management tool that helps record and analyze rescue operations. Instead of archiving information as paperwork, D4H generates real-time profiles of members, available resources, and experience levels. Decisions for Heroes uses this data to deliver live information to the field. Visit their home page.
- FEMA Blog: News of the Day
- From the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dogs Blog
- Based in the UK
- National Park Service Morning Report
- Including Search and Rescue and recovery missions
- North Shore Rescue Blog
- North Shore Rescue is a volunteer community-based search and rescue team in Canada. Over the past 40 years, the team has participated in more than 1000 mountain search and rescue operations, volunteering over 53,000 hours. Calls have involved over 900 subjects.
- Zen and the Art of Search and Rescue
- Written by Don Ferguson, the chairman of the Mountaineer Area Rescue Group based in Morgantown, WV
Search and Rescue in the News
- WEB UPDATE: Couple lost in Siskiyou wilderness found by search and rescue team
- By Anonymous Following a day-long search effort, members of the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) Search and Rescue (SAR) Team located two people who were reported stuck in the snow and lost near Modoc National Forest.
- Search and Rescue teams put it all on the line
- When a call went out last Monday that there were two missing snowmobilers in the Big Hole Mountains, seven Teton County Idaho Search and Rescue members responded. Sense the SAR team is 100 percent volunteer, of those seven responders, two gave up their ...
- Lawmakers call for new search rules: Backlash continues after Duclos Death
- By John Flowers MONPTELIER ? House and Senate lawmakers on Monday are drafting legislation that would clearly define search-and-rescue protocols for Vermont emergency responders in connection with lost or injured hikers, this in the wake of the tragic ...
- Defence Minister: Cyprus a hub for Search and Rescue
- Cyprus aims to become a hub for Search and Rescue operations in the Eastern Mediterranean, Defence Minister Demetris Eliades has told a seminar titled ?Search and Rescue Operations.? This, he pointed out, would obstruct Turkey's illegal objectives to ...
Search and Rescue News from SAR Newswire
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