This Saturday, North Shore Rescue (NSR) held its annual Member-in-Training (MIT) evaluation on Mount Seymour. This long day helps us to check off the many skills that members of NSR are required to master. As many of you know, NSR has a two year MIT process which teaches the fundamental skills to become an active [...]
Tonight, NSR members conducted a rope rescue training scenario in Greenwood Park. This scenario involved an injured patient at the bottom of a 30 foot vertical cliff with approximately 30 feet of uneven terrain above. In this scenario, a first aid attendant immediately rappelled down the cliff and began assessment of the patient while other [...]
This afternoon NSR responded to a call for a injured 54 year old male who had taken about a 20 meter fall on a technical part of the route. Luckily the subject was well prepared and able to get out on his cell phone, as he was hiking by himself. He was about 200 meters [...]
NS Rescue is honoured to be receiving the Dr. Joseph H. Cohen Award from the JIBC on November 28th. Established in 1998 in honour of Dr. Cohen, a founding member of the JIBC Board of Governors, this award is presented to an individual or organization for making an outstanding contribution in the field of public [...]
North Vancouver MP Andrew Saxton made a speech on North Shore Rescue in the House of Commons today. The video of the speech can be found here, 7 minutes and 15 seconds in. If the link doesn’t work for you, navigate to http://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/parlvu/upcomingevents.aspx?lang and click on May 21, 2013 and open the video/audio file at 2:00 to 3:00 [...]
Late yesterday three hikers become stranded after losing the Dilly Dally trail near Buntzen Lake (overlooking the Indian Arm). Coquitlam SAR received the subjects GPS coordinates via cellular phone and deployed manpower and resources to the ridge above them. After locating the subjects in steep, difficult terrain, it was determined that a conventional evacuation was [...]
To contact the team for a search and rescue emergency call 9-1-1 and ask for the police.
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North Shore Rescue Team Society
147 East 14 th Street
North Vancouver, BC, V7L 2N4
