At 1440 hours on Sunday,,Feb 12,  afternoon Terrace Search and Rescue were requested by the RCMP to respond to an SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger distress call. Once activated, SPOT will acquire its exact coordinates from the GPS network, and send that location along with a distress message to a GEOS International Emergency Response Center every [...]

Members of Terrace Search and Rescue Water rescue Team recently took part in a hypothermia workshop called “Beyond Cold Water Boot Camp”.  The workshop was hosted by the Canadian Safe Boating Council and British Columbia Lifesaving Society and presented by (aka Dr. Popsicle) a professor from the University of Manitoba “ Dr. principle of” is [...]

Terrace Search and Rescue is proud to be hosting this year’s N.I.T.R.O. Join Terrace SAR and other rope rescue enthusiast for a weekend of rope rescue scenarios and training. Date: September 9 – 11, 2011 Location: Northwestern BC More info to be announced closer to event date. Contact: Dwayne Sheppard 250-615-6968   dsheppard@citywest.ca Highlights include: • [...]

Published by Terrace Standard, March 10, 2010 TERRACE SEARCH and Rescue is one of the first groups in the north to have a new avalanche rescue system to help find skiers and others buried in snow. View this PDF to read the full story – Terrace Standard story new avalanche equipment

Sarvair Accident Report

Published by the Terrace Standard. click here to view the online article. Published: February 19, 2011 6:00 AM Updated: February 19, 2011 6:57 AM MEMBERS of Terrace Search and Rescue spent a recent weekend earning avalanche rescue skills and techniques. The Organized Avalanche Response Team Member course provides participants with the skills necessary to safely [...]

Posted on Terrace Standard website Published: October 18, 2010 10:00 AM A MAN reported missing while mushroom picking last Saturday has been found safe and sound. The 78-year-old local man was reported missing after he went out 8 a.m. that morning and hadn’t returned by 9 p.m. that night, report Terrace RCMP. A search of [...]

News article from the Terrace Standard Aage Engholm Two family members perish in separate road accidents   Published: May 25, 2010 11:00 PM ONE OF the biggest search efforts in several years ended with the discovery of the body of a man missing from Kitwanga for four days last week. The body of Aage Engholm, [...]

We have seen accidents like this in the past, worse case scenario, its usually a body recovery.

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