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Thank you, Gateway Casinos for your generous donation and support for our volunteer team at Vernon Search & Rescue!
A huge "Thank You" goes out to the Vernon Lions Club, for their donation of $1000 to our team at Vernon Search & Rescue!
New Year's Eve Present... Rescued children home safe!
Vernon Search & Rescue ground search teams were happy to help track, locate and rescue two young boys in the Westside community. The two brothers, aged 6 and 8 had walked into the first to find marshmallow sticks, when they got lost after wandering after a deer. The frigid -18 celcius temperatures contributed to the difficulty and the urgency of the search.
Vernon SAR members training at Kin beach today in ice rescue, safety and awareness. We like to remind the public that ice conditions are variable and venturing out on one of the frozen bays or streams can be can be dangerous.
The Canadian Red Cross published some excellent information on ice safety on there website. Ice Awareness
Vernon Search & Rescue was called to assist the BC ambulance service with a high-angle rope Rescue at a motor vehicle accident East of Cherryville.
Arriving on scene they assessed the situation, finding a vehicle roughly 20m down a very steep Bank, with the female subject roughly 50m further down the bank below the vehicle.
Vernon Search and Rescue teams set up and deployed a rope system, and with help from the RCMP and Lumby fire department members hoisted the subject up the steep slope to the safety of the roadway.