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Long term SAR Trends in British Columbia

By Michael Coyle Posted on 08/09/2017 Posted in Blog Entry 4 Comments
Long term SAR Trends in British Columbia

Emergency Management BC published the yearly summary statistics for emergency response in BC and like last year I did some analysis. We now have 20 years of statistics on SAR in BC! You may recall that last year there seemed …

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Tagged with: information, InfoSAR, statistics

SAR Call Volume Trends

By Michael Coyle Posted on 03/02/2017 Posted in Blog Entry 4 Comments
SAR Call Volume Trends
SAR Tasks in BC 1998-2015

Last week I published a post showing how the 2015-2016 year was unusually busy one for SAR groups in British Columbia. That one dealt with the number of people rescued, and at the end of it I uncovered one of the reasons for …

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Tagged with: InfoSAR, statistics

SAR Call volume up province wide

By Michael Coyle Posted on 26/01/2017 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments
SAR Call volume up province wide
SAR Tasks 1992 to 2016

SAR Teams in BC saw more than a 25% increase in people rescued in 2015/16

Tagged with: call volume, InfoSAR, statistics

What was the largest search in BC History?

By Michael Coyle Posted on 29/10/2014 Posted in Blog Entry 2 Comments
What was the largest search in BC History?
SAR Incidents by Week (2003 to 2010)

What is the largest search in BC Search and Rescue History? Almost impossible to answer to anyone’s satisfaction.

Tagged with: Incidents, InfoSAR, numbers

Growth of of the Long Line Rescue technique

By Michael Coyle Posted on 23/08/2013 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments
Growth of of the Long Line Rescue technique
Looking up

By analysing a database of SAR incident on BC over the past decade we can show the grown of the Long Line Rescue technique over time.

Tagged with: HETS, InfoSAR, long line, numbers, rescue

Comparing SAR Funding in BC

By Michael Coyle Posted on 01/08/2013 Posted in Blog Entry 10 Comments
Comparing SAR Funding in BC
Comparison of the cost-per-incident of the top 16 ground SAR teams in BC by call volume

A comparison of the “cost per incident” of the top 16 Ground SAR teams in British Columbia by call volume as a measure of funding disparity.

Tagged with: funding, InfoSAR, SAR

SAR Team call volumes in BC

By Michael Coyle Posted on 19/07/2013 Posted in Blog Entry 4 Comments
SAR Team call volumes in BC
British Columbia SAR Team Call Volume, 2003 - 2012

Who is the busiest SAR team in BC? Using numbers from EMBC I analysed the call volumes of SAR groups in BC and came up with some interesting results.

Tagged with: analysis, InfoSAR, numbers, SAR

Busiest Canada Day Weekend in a Decade

By Michael Coyle Posted on 10/07/2013 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments
Busiest Canada Day Weekend in a Decade

Looking back through data from the last 11 years I figure Canada Day long weekend 2013 was the busiest we have had in BC.

Tagged with: Canada Day, InfoSAR, numbers

Canadian Avalanche Air Bag study

By Michael Coyle Posted on 14/11/2012 Posted in Blog Entry 2 Comments
Canadian Avalanche Air Bag study

A recently released series of reports on the effectiveness of Avalanche Air Bags in Canada gives us the first evidence that they are effective.

Tagged with: analysis, avalanche, InfoSAR, numbers, safety, snow, technology

BC Life expectancy highest in Canada

By Michael Coyle Posted on 02/04/2012 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments
BC Life expectancy highest in Canada

BC’s life expectancy is the highest in Canada and for men the highest in the world. Could this be because we spend so much time outdoors?

Tagged with: Incidents, InfoSAR, numbers, SAR

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