Penticton & District Search & Rescue
251 Dawson Ave V2A 3N4 Penticton, BC, Canada

Merry Christmas to all. Please be safe over Christmas and New Years when traveling in the outdoors. Be AdventureSmart and use the trip planner. If you do find yourself lost or in trouble Search and Rescue’s phone number is 911. No charge for rescues.

https://www.adventuresmart.ca/tripplanning/tripplan.htm

It's been a busy year and we expect the winter responses to continue. Please practice being AdventureSmart #AdventureSmart

Good news.. especially since we get so many calls in later part of the day and evening.

Last months 4 x 4 training with BC4WD association at Apex.

Winter is not coming. It's here. Are you ready. If your going outside don't forget to check out Adventuresmart.ca and the Trip Planning: - Plan your travel route - Know the terrain and conditions &Check the weather - Always fill out a trip plan and let others know where you are going.

Good Job Vernon SAR.

Important tips for all and please share.

With some pretty wet weather predicted in the coming months, it’s important to remember that it’s dangerous to attempt to drive through flooded areas. Some Que...ensland Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) firefighters are also qualified in swiftwater rescue. They’ve been brushing up on their skills at Wivenhoe Dam to ensure they’re ready to go at a moment’s notice. Have a look at what it takes for them to rescue just one person from a vehicle stuck in fast-flowing waters We say it every year if it’s flooded, forget it! Wivenhoe Dam | October 2020

If you use all your energy saving your children, they still lose someone very important to them. Please wear your PFD so your children don’t have to be without their parent.

Date: September 7, 2020 Summary: Busy Labour Day weekend for PENSAR Details: ... PENSAR’s on duty SAR manager Kelvin Hall has had an exceptionally busy weekend with 5 requests from police and BCEHS and the long weekend it not officially over yet. Hall who is one of the PENSAR’s 5 volunteer managers says he signed on Thursday evening for his 7-day rotation as on-call manager and had a suspicion it might be busy, but never expected to see 5 requests from Police and BCEHS over the weekend. HALL advised the tasks started at 8:00 A.M. this past Friday morning with a call from BCEHS to evacuate a seriously injured Para-glider in the hills above Hedley B.C. PENSAR’s helicopter (HETS long line team) was dispatched to the scene along with a ground team. Due to the reported serious nature of the subjects injuries BCEHS dispatched their Kamloops Helicopter Team (Bravo -370) to the scene as well. PENSAR crews located the subject, provided basic first aid, packaged the subject and then airlifted the subject off the slope to the awaiting EHS aircraft. The subject was then flown to Kelowna General Hospital for treatment. Next up was a series of 3 rescue tasks on Saturday where both air and ground assets were deployed. The first call came in at 11:30 to evacuate an injured ATV rider in the Tulameen area, north of Princeton and then later in the afternoon the PENSAR aircrews received a request from Central Okanagan SAR to assist in the rescue of another injured ATV rider in the Bear Creek area. Between these 2 calls, Penticton RCMP requested PENSAR’s assistance to investigate the report of a vehicle off highway 97 down the bank just south of Penticton. The Helicopter crew returning from Tulameen event were in the vicinity and were able locate the vehicle, however no occupants were inside. Next up Monday 10:10 AM PENSAR launched a Helicopter Team into the Cathedral Provincial Park after police had received a distress beacon coming from the Matriarch Mountain area. PENSAR crews located 2 hikers in the area who were suffering from hypothermia and lack of supplies. The subjects were evacuated out of the area and taken BCEHS personnel from Keremeos who had staged near Hwy 3 and the Ashinola roadway. Five tasks in over 4 days are above average for PENSAR and has responded to 55 Tasks which is above average. Randy Brown SAR Manager Public Information Officer - Penticton and District Search and Rescue 250-488-8465 For more info go to www.pensar.ca and follow us on Facebook _________________________________________________________________________________________________