Coquitlam SAR responded to 30 tasks in 2014 for a total of 2700 person hours of effort. We searched for 29 subjects, and the team was in the field for 39 operational periods, as some searches are more than one day in length. These numbers are slightly down from 2013 when the team responded to 39 searches, …
The Provincial Emergency Program (PEP) has released their SAR statistics for the 2010-2011 year. These stats are for British Columbia only and compiled by PEP. Looking at the graphs below we see a rising trend for the total number of people requiring SAR assistance. (Editor’s note: it is assumed that data includes all SAR tasks, …