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Tag: search

SAR Day 44: For god’s sake, make the beeping stop!!

By Michael Coyle Posted on 03/08/2010 Posted in Blog Entry, SAR Day Tagged with rescue, SAR, SARDay, search

I really shouldn’t complain, but 5 calls in 12 hours is quite a lot. Sunday night started with a late evening page for a lost person near Burnaby Lake. I did not respond to the call, but I did monitor …

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SAR Day 13: Search for missing hiker near Wigeon Creek

By Michael Coyle Posted on 22/04/2010 Posted in Blog Entry, SAR Day Tagged with rescue, SAR, SARDay, search
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

Urban Searches and Homelessness

By Michael Coyle Posted on 12/10/2009 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with opinion, SAR, search

The SAR team was called out to search for a missing man in his 70’s with Alzheimer’s disease. This search was in an urban area of Burnaby near Central Park. Being a search and rescue team that specializes in wilderness …

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