The Coquitlam SAR Blog; team updates, press releases, announcements and search reports.
Members of Coquitlam SAR were involved in three searches this Sunday, as well as a large search and rescue exercise involving seven agencies, and spanning from Indian Arm to Pitt Lake. Three members of the team went to Vancouver Island to assist Cowichan SAR in the search for missing 79 year old Anthony Morley near Cowichan; over …
Burnaby RCMP activated Coquitlam SAR this afternoon to follow up on a missing person who could possibly be in the Coquitlam area. Richard Lin, 19, was last seen at his home in south Burnaby on September 6th, 2014. Initial evidence led the police to believe that he might be travelling to Squamish. A possible sighting …
On September 1st at 15:00 Coquitlam SAR was activated by BC Ambulance for 62 year old female hiker with a sprained or broken right ankle, described as being on the west side of Buntzen Lake. The team alerted the BC Hydro wardens office, and responded to the lake. By the time members arrived, one of the …
September 27th and 28th, 2014 Coquitlam, BC Coquitlam Search and Rescue in conjunction with the British Columbia Search and Rescue Association (BCSARA), is organizing the first regional search and rescue conference for SAR groups on the south coast in 14 years. SAREx Southwest (SARxSW) will see the 14 Ground SAR (GSAR) teams from southwestern BC’s …
Coquitlam Search and Rescue and Kaizen Kinetics International (K2I, formerly North Guardian UAV Services) continue to work towards their goal of bringing UAV services to Search and Rescue in southwestern BC. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as Drones, are small remote controlled flying machines that can be used for a variety of purposes. Coquitlam SAR and …