[SARA-Members] Provincial Wide Exercise

[monica]

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

 

Provincial SAR Exercise

October 24, 25  2009

Chambers Creek - west of Rocky Mountain House

All teams invited to attend

 

On October 24 and 25 Rocky Mountain House Volunteer Search and Rescue will
be hosting a provincial wide search and rescue exercise in cooperation with
SAR Alberta. The exercise will be held at Chamber's Creek about 20 minutes
west of Rocky Mountain House on Highway 11. All teams in the province are
invited and encouraged to send participants. The exercise will focus on
search and rescue skills and will include real-to-life scenarios. The
exercise will be run as though it was an actual incident. AEMA, the RCMP,
and CASARA  will be involved , other organizations have also expressed
interest. A number of VIP's and the media will also be invited to attend.

 

The purpose of this event is to build further interoperability between the
SAR teams in Alberta and between Search and Rescue and other emergency
response organizations in the province. It will be an excellent opportunity
to work with other teams, and organizations and to exchange ideas and
information. It will also help define areas of strength for SAR in general
and areas in which there needs to be improvement. Communications - both
personal and technical will be a focus for the evaluators.

 

 Some expenses for travel will be paid to those attending.  On the Saturday
evening there will be a catered meal for all the participants. Other meals
will be brought in as though at a real event. There is a campground across
the road for camping if the weather is good. Some of the other details are
still being worked on and will be passed on when they are finalized.

 

 It is requested that each team send at least 3 people to attend the event -
more is fine too. Participants will be expected to come prepared - as though
responding to a real event. The event will start Saturday morning and run
until noon on Sunday. There will be a number of operational periods and the
event will run through the night. 

 

Please get this message out to your team and start recruiting members to
attend. A letter is being sent to all the Presidents and training officers
of all SAR teams asking for participation and to RSVP with the members to be
sent. If you are interested in participating please get a hold of your
President or team training officer. 

 

For more information please contact Edward Van Heeran at
extreme11 at telusplanet.net 

 

As more detailed information becomes available it will be sent on.

 

I hope to see you there.

 

Sincerely,

 

Monica Ahlstrom

President SAR Alberta

 

 

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