Serving Clackamas County, Oregon and neighboring communities since 1993.
Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue (PNWSAR) is an all volunteer non-profit organization dedicated to providing Search and Rescue assistance for people who are lost or injured out of doors. Our organization exists to provide ground search teams and other types of assistance to the official agencies responsible for search and rescue activities in our region (by Oregon law, the county Sheriff).
Our specialty is ground search operations. We focus our training on the development and maintenance of outdoor navigation, search, patient evacuation and survival skills. We also have a certified mountain bike team to augment our ground searches when it's appropriate. All field operation team members will meet PNWSAR and Oregon State Sheriff’s Association basic search and rescue certification standards. We also train to develop skills that will be utilized in command post and base camp functions during a SAR incident.
We work very closely with the Clackamas County Sheriff Department’s search and rescue coordinators for training and testing as well as other regional search and rescue organizations and belong to the Mt. Hood SAR Council. We also participate in joint training operations with other search and rescue groups. This prepares our teams to effectively participate in SAR missions that require high levels of cooperation and teamwork with the many diverse resource groups (i.e.: dog teams, snowmobiles, high angle rescue, medical teams, and other ground search teams).
Submitted by Steve Edwards
Friday, August 27, 2010 11:26
This site has now been upgraded to Drupal 6. Members will see some small changes, particularly in the menus in the left sidebar, but all the information is still the same. Now that the site has been (finally) upgraded, we will be adding some new features, such as nice photo galleries, a library of training documents, and a brand new design.
Submitted by Steve Edwards
Friday, August 27, 2010 11:26
This site has now been upgraded to Drupal 6. Members will see some small changes, particularly in the menus in the left sidebar, but all the information is still the same. Now that the site has been (finally) upgraded, we will be adding some new features, such as nice photo galleries, a library of training documents, and a brand new design.
Submitted by Steve Edwards
Friday, August 27, 2010 11:26
This site has now been upgraded to Drupal 6. Members will see some small changes, particularly in the menus in the left sidebar, but all the information is still the same. Now that the site has been (finally) upgraded, we will be adding some new features, such as nice photo galleries, a library of training documents, and a brand new design.
Thurday, September 2, 2010
7:00PM - 10:00PM
Monthly meeting of the Board of Directors.
PNW members are invited to attend.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
8:00AM - 1:00PM
We will NOT be practicing field skills. This event is for certification purposes and is offered each calendar quarter.
All trainees will have an opportunity to demonstrate and certify on their field skill requirements.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
8:00AM - 4:00PM
This is a two and a half year old cold case that has a good chance of being solved with our efforts.
We will work with a few other local search teams to try and wrap this up.
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