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 …
Oplopanax Horridus
A veteran SAR volunteer's experiences in British Columbia
Tag: statistics
SAR Call Volume Trends
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 …
SAR Call volume up province wide
SAR Teams in BC saw more than a 25% increase in people rescued in 2015/16
Frequency of SAR Incidents
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.