It's 2012 orientation time!!!

Skagit County Sheriff Search and Rescue

Winter/Spring training 2012 is starting soon!!

Orientation Night - Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 @ 18:30 

Location - Search and Rescue Command Building, 11525 Knudson Road Burlington, WA 98233.

 

If you are 14 years or older, enjoy the outdoors, and have a desire to serve others in your community, this may  be an opportunity for you.  Join us for the orientation meeting listed above.

Trainings will be Wednesday evenings from 18:30 - 21:00 and approximately one weekend per month through June.

Highland Games a success!



Skagit Highland Games July 9 & 10

Every year in July, Search and Rescue gets the pleasure of working with Skagit Highland games. 

We do their parking detail, which includes set up and take down of the parking areas, flagging (we have certified flaggers!) and directing of general traffic as well.  I have to tell you from working three years in a row with them, this is a wonderful group of people to work with.  They offer free parking for the event as well as a shuttle from the farther parking spots.  If you missed it this year make sure to join us next year!  Always around the same time in July at Edgewater park in Mt Vernon.  Come join us for great food, fun games, AMAZING bagpipes, and  great looking parking folks! 

If you would like Skagit Search and Rescue to assist you with an event please contact us at info@skagitsar.com or heather.jones@skagitsar.com.  We have medical personnel for first aid tents, certified flaggers and of course excellent hikers!

"If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?"

Lord Chesterfield



Training Season off to a good start!

Start of training season was on November 3rd.  We have a great group of recruits and I am excited to watch them progress through the training season.  We are restructuring our training season to include online learning.  This way our in class focus can be more hands on and practical experience.  Please join me in welcoming our new recruits and wishing them luck....they'll need it!  If you are interested in joining Skagit Search and Rescue please visit our website for more information. 

Skagit Search and Rescue

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."      Abigail Adams

Check out our new products!!!!

Skagit SAR now has a Zazzle store!!!  Please check it out, make suggestions, and of course, make a PURCHASE!!!!  This is slowly growing and I will add things as time allows.  Please do not be shy to make a comment or suggestion. 


make custom gifts at Zazzle

Adversity: The only way around is through.   - Robert Frost

Graduation!!!! March 31st 2010

Congratulations to the recruits for this years training season!  They have pushed through the mud, tackled the bog, navigated over field and stream, and searched the trails.  These are the proud new members of Skagit County Sheriff Search and Rescue and Explorer's!!!

Great job for all the hard work you have put in.  It has been yet another great training season and we have come together as a team.  Welcome to the family!

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success."
Henry Ford

Soul Food:

"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.  I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live.  Life is no "brief candle" to me.  It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."  -George Bernard Shaw

This should be SAR's mantra!  I love it, very well said!

Our own Jeff Brown back from Haiti

Jeff Brown just came back from a mission to Haiti.  He was traveling there to help the people that were affected by the horrible earthquakes.  Jeff left early Tuesday morning and flew to the ruins of Jacmel Haiti.  On arrival he quickly awoke to the horrific needs of these people.  Jeff and the rest of the medical team returned home this Sunday, January 24, 2010.  King 5 news interviewed Jeff and the other people that he was traveling with upon return.  Please welcome Jeff home and check out the article on King 5.

King 5-"Local Medics Return Home from Haiti"

Jeff traveled with the International Medical Assistance Team.  Please help them collect donations and send medical teams to Haiti.

International Medical Assistance Team donation link for Haiti

“Those who want to do good are not selfish. They are not in a hurry. They know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time. But evil has wings. To build a house takes time. Its destruction takes none.” 

Mahatma Ghandi

Bootcamp January 8, 9 & 10, 2010!!!

Reminder to bring $10 for food to meeting this Wed.  3 meals will be provided.  No money equals no soup for you.  Get ready for some fun!!!
If you haven't yet, call responder line with a 1 if you are attending bootcamp and a 9 if you can't make it.  Those recruits who plan on obtaining full qualifications for SAR please be aware, bootcamp is not optional.

Happy New Year!!!

"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are

for what we could become."

-Charles Du Bois

SkagitSAR Photobucket pics - Course Bravo 09

Reminder Certs.

ALL CERTIFIED MEMBERS...

Annual Dues of $20 are due by the end of December at the very latest.  Please bring your cash or check to the treasurer at any meeting.  Make sure to get a reciept to keep track of your payment. 

Thank you all for your hard work and dedication this year!

10/21/09 Meeting Reminder

---Reminder---

The Recruit Academy class scheduled for 21-Oct-09 will be held at the Skagit County Dike Dist. 12 Building located at 1317 S. Anacortes St in Burlington.

The training will commence at 1800 and will be comprised of outdoor and hands on evolutions. Please dress appropriately and bring closed toed foot ware and work gloves.

Map can be found here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=1317+S.+Anacortes+st++burlington&fb=1&gl=us&cid=0,0,2007371944900848993&ei=nlvbSuu9CNLO8QaauMC3BQ&ved=0CAwQnwIwAA&hq=1317+S.+Anacortes+st++burlington&hnear=&ll=48.459348,-122.328923&spn=0.010245,0.019248&z=16

TL Applications

ALL SCSO S.A.R.>

2009 Team Leader Applications are due 10/15/09. Please download an application and return it (via Email) to jeff.brown@skagitsar.com.

TRAINING SEASON IS HERE!!!

Are you interested in becoming one of Skagit County's finest? JOIN Search and Rescue!

Come to one of the orientation meetings on either September 9th or September 16th, 2009.

Meetings take place at the SAR building.

11525 Knudsen Rd, Burlington WA 98233.

Make sure you go onto our website and print an application to bring with you! http://www.skagitsar.com/ Then be ready to find out all you wanted to know about Search and Rescue.

Come prepared to take a hike!

"Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't,

I give myself reasons why I can."~ Unknown

1st Annual SAR-BQ

It is time to start some traditions here at SAR. Or maybe resurrect some old ones. The first on the agenda is to have a BBQ, or rather a SAR-BQ like only SAR can have. Do we have all the items needed to BBQ? No but like anything in SAR land, we make due. Jeff loaded a nice BBQ onto his truck and towed it to the SAR-BQ. Everyone bringing food, with only one run to the store, what else do we need? ROCK BAND! Should we start a new SAR band? Hmmm not sure that we are there yet, but it sure was fun. I am looking forward to next years SAR-BQ and hope that more members are able to come. They missed out that is for sure! Take care. Enjoy the pics...


"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest."
George Matthew Allen

Some History on Skagit SAR

Skagit County Explorer Search and Rescue was born in 1966 with the creation of the Skagit County Search and Rescue Council. The SAR Council was created to coordinate Search and Rescue efforts in and around Skagit county. Since 1966, ESAR has grown from a loosely organized group of volunteers to a dedicated, well trained unit, committed to saving lives. Over the years, our unit has fluctuated in its active membership. Since 1966 we have grown from a mere skeleton crew to over 100 active personnel, making our unit the single largest rescue unit in all of Skagit county. Over the years, we have also grown with technology, moving from working exclusively with paper maps and compasses to the integration of computerized mapping programs and the use of GPS. In 2004 we also added a new branch to our unit. The creation of the Special Operations Branch. Inside the new Special Operations Branch we now have our Special Rescue Team or SRT. This branch will allow members to expand their current knowledge and take their training to the next level. Through all of our changes our goals have never changed and our focus has become clearer.
We Serve, so others may live.

Lovingly borrowed from Nate Silcock's high school web page.

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." ~George Bernard Shaw

Clear lake Splashtacular 8/6/09

SAR had a great time helping today at the Kids Day Splashtacular at Clear Lake. The weather was a bit overcast so we didn't have the turn out that we would've liked to, but....next year! We brought a throw bag and "saved" some kids. We also demonstrated how to save a person in the water by Nate getting into a suit and playing in the water. The rest of the guys decided that wasn't such a bad idea, even though they had no suit.

Practice water safety always!

"Whether you think you can or you can't, you are right." Henry Ford

Now is a great time to hike

For SAR everytime is a great time to hike. If you are headed out to take advantage or this fantastic weather please remember these tips. Be prepared, pack for the weather, always have snacks and water, and tell a friend where you are headed and expected time to return. BE SMART, HIKE SMART. Otherwise you might get to meet Skagit SAR sooner than you'd hoped to. Here is a trail system well known to SAR. Enjoy the maps, brought to you by www.pnt.org. Blanchard Mountain trails.


~H

"There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing." ~Alfred Wainwright

A few photos...

Skagit ESAR!

I have really enjoyed every aspect of Search and Rescue. I think the best part is knowing that we are a group of volunteers that give freely of our time to help others. "We serve so others may live" is a summary of how we feel in relation to the pride we take in our training and our service for the community.

~H

"Individual commitment to a group effort -
that is what makes a team work,
a company work, a society work,
a civilization work." ~Vince Lombardi

Skagit County Search and Rescue 2009 Video by Skagit County Search & Rescue - MySpace Video

This is a great video done by Beef. This is a rough draft for our recruiting video.
Click on the link below.

Enjoy!


Skagit County Search and Rescue 2009 Video by Skagit County Search & Rescue - MySpace Video

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~H