Coquitlam SAR was out searching Burke Mountain on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, and the effort highlighted again the need to replace Coquitlam 1, our 20 year old mobile command centre. The replacement project, which has been in the planning stage for just over a year, launched into the fundraising phase this summer. As the team …
At 9:15 PM on Wednesday November 26th, Coquitlam SAR was informed of a medical rescue on Burke Mountain. A member of the public, a HAM radio operator, was scanning frequencies when he heard a distress call on an FRS Radio (also known as the Family Radio Service) frequency. The caller said his name and that he …
Coquitlam SAR has been called on rescues twice in the past week, leading up to the Canada Day long weekend, the busiest SAR weekend of the year. On Sunday June 23rd around 15:00, the team was called to rescue a hiker with a badly sprained ankle on the Diez Vistas trail. The team used the …
Coquitlam SAR was busy this week with two different rescues in the Eagle Ridge area, just two weeks after an overnight rescue of three hikers in the same place. A few hours after our helicopter operations training, the team was notified by Coquitlam RCMP at 5:30 of a stranded hiker near the Swan Falls trail. The team …
On Sunday May 19th, Coquitlam SAR members had just returned from assisting Ridge Meadows SAR in the search for a missing man in Maple Ridge, when we were paged by Coquitlam RCMP at 19:00. Three 23 year old male hikers reported themselves lost. They had been hiking on the Dilly Dally trail out of Buntzen …