Click. Buy. Help. is pleased to welcome Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue!  PNWSAR is an all volunteer non-profit organization dedicated to providing Search and Rescue assistance for people who are lost or injured out of doors. Their organization exists to provide ground search teams and other types of assistance to the official agencies responsible for search and rescue activities in our region (by Oregon law, the county Sheriff).

PNWSAR’s specialty is ground search operations. They focus their training on the development and maintenance of outdoor navigation, search, patient evacuation and survival skills. They also have a certified mountain bike team to augment their ground searches when it’s appropriate. All field operation team members meet PNWSAR and Oregon State Sheriff’s Association basic search and rescue certification standards. They work primarily with the Clackamas County Sheriff Department’s search and rescue coordinators for training and testing to meet this statewide requirement. They also train to develop skills that will be utilized in command post and base camp functions during an SAR incident. All PNWSAR members are registered “Emergency Service Workers” with Clackamas County Emergency Management and Oregon Emergency Management.

They work very closely with other regional search and rescue organizations and belong to the Mt. Hood SAR Council. They also participate in joint training operations with other search and rescue groups. This prepares their teams to effectively participate in SAR missions that require high levels of cooperation and teamwork with the many diverse resource groups (i.e.: dog teams, snowmobiles, high angle rescue, medical teams, and other ground search teams).

Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue has been serving Clackamas County, Oregon and neighboring communities since 1993 and are always interested in meeting new volunteers who share their commitment to helping others through search and rescue.  You can contact them through their web site.

To assist PNWSAR, be sure to start from their page on Click. Buy. Help. before you begin your regular online shopping – better yet, make their page your home page when to surf the Internet.

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