SAR Day 13: Search for missing hiker near Wigeon Creek
On Monday evening the team was paged to search for a missing hiker in the Wigeon Slough area
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SAR Day 12: First aid field day
Day three of the first aid course is a field day. Of course, even a field day involves some teaching, and Rollie does a good job using the back of the truck as a whiteboard. Today we covered spinal immobilization, …
SAR Day 11: Classroom first aid
The first full day of the SAR Wilderness First Aid course was spent in the classroom. Among many other things we spent a lot of time on taking accurate vitals. This is essential in order to establish weather the subject is improving …
SAR Day 9: Advanced first aid techniques
All SAR members have basic first aid skills, but in addition to the basic stuff we’re often called to assist members of the team who are paramedics, nurses or doctors. We currently have 4 paramedics, 1 firefighter, 1 coast guard …
SAR Day 7: Hypothermia
On Tuesday the team trained for treating hypothermia. Hypothermia affects people year round. In a seminar a few years ago a BC Ambulance paramedic told us that older people who are in trouble because they have fallen inside their houses …
SAR Day 6: Navigation part 2
Regular training day with navigation on the schedule. Map and compass. In the past 10 years, the biggest errors in navigation I’ve seen have all been variations on transcription errors. What happens is this: people will report their position using …
SAR Day 5: Executive Meeting
Our SAR Team has an executive; we’re an incorporated charity under the Society Act of British Columbia. This act atates that we must meet some minimum requirements such has having officers of the society, and regular meetings. The executive runs …
Death on Snowmobile: part 3 what worked
Every skier loves to slag a sledder. Forums all over the internets are alive with skiers talking about the Boulder Mountain Avalanche and how it wouldn’t happen to skiers, that the sledders are isolated from the sounds of the snow …