[SaraHap] SARA Happenings July 2008

[Chris Hoare]

Hi All: 

SARA Happenings is issued to foster communication within the Search and Rescue community in Alberta. It is going to 328 e-mail addresses that are listed as the primary contact of SAR Alberta member groups or which were requested to be added to the mailing list.

Subscription and unsubscription information is at the end of the newsletter. 


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CAVE RESCUE

Three members of ACRO (Alberta Cave Rescue Organization) attended British Columbia Cave Rescue's biannual cave rescue seminar from July 5th to 12th on Vancouver Island. In addition to covering some technical rope aspects of cave rescue, the seminar included a series of mock rescues which dramatically illustrated the challenges of cave rescue. In the final scenario, for example, it took over four and a 
half hours to transport a patient (in a stretcher) over a linear distance of roughly 300 meters - a process which completely exhausted 25 rescuers. This was after rescuers had already been working underground for six and a half hours to locate the patient, get the stretcher and packaging material to him, and prepare him for transport.

ACRO will definitely be drawing on the experience of this seminar as it reviews its call-out procedures and concept of operations over the next few months.

Doug Munroe hdmunroe at ucalgary.ca 
Provincial Coordinator, ACRO (Alberta Cave Rescue Organization)



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THREE FOR NEWFOUNDLAND 

This CALL FOR THREE ALBERTA REPRESENTATIVES comes from the SAR Alberta website. http://www.saralberta.org/ 

SARVAC is looking for three Alberta reprsentatives to attend two training sessions in Newfoundland on October 14th & 15th in conjunction with SARSCENE 2008. 

- How to design a Search & Rescue Exercise

- AdventureSmart program & how to deliver it

Travel expenses will be covered (flights/hotel & expenses) but you must attend BOTH training sessions. The expectations will be that you return and share your knowledge which will include setting up an Excercise in the province and to teach the Adventure Smart program to the teams/public (train the trainer).

The AdventureSmart website is at http://www.adventuresmart.ca/ 

Deadlines to get submissions to the SARVAC Executives is July 25th .

For more infomation or to submit a name please contact your SAR Alberta Regional Director. 


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2008/2009 AEMA APPROVED SAR TRAINING GRANTS

The information for these can be found on the SAR Alberta website. http://www.saralberta.org/ 


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