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Tag: statistics

Long term SAR Trends in British Columbia

By Michael Coyle Posted on 08/09/2017 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with information, InfoSAR, statistics
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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SAR Call Volume Trends

By Michael Coyle Posted on 03/02/2017 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with InfoSAR, statistics
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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SAR Call volume up province wide

By Michael Coyle Posted on 26/01/2017 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with call volume, InfoSAR, statistics
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

Frequency of SAR Incidents

By Michael Coyle Posted on 19/12/2010 Posted in Blog Entry, Essay Tagged with InfoSAR, numbers, SAR, statistics, technology
Frequency of SAR Incidents
SAR Incidents by Week and Type (2003 to 2010)

I analysed some numbers on SAR Incidents in British Columbia and made a few graphs showing how the frequency of incidents changes with the season.

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