[MSAR] Night MSAR

L. S. obsar1864 at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 19 11:16:05 EST 2004


Una, sounds like you quickly corrected his misinformation! We have had a 
team train with us that as soon as the sun started to go down, they packed 
up and left...missing out on a really cool full scale interagency mock night 
search. That's where my frustration with the whole issue comes from.
Lauri
Osage Beach Fire Protection District SAR Division

>From: Una Smith <una at lanl.gov>
>Reply-To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders at lists.ibiblio.org>
>To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [MSAR] Night MSAR
>Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:22:14 -0700
>
>Jorene Downs wrote:
> >I seem to recall a recent reference to a local MSAR unit not
> >responding to many call-outs because many were night responses.
>
>Hm.  Could have been something I said.  But what I said was
>that many of our local SAR missions are at night...and we do
>not get called.  As it happens, last night we had a training
>(ELT beacon tracking) and during it I talked to one of our
>local Field Coordinators (FCs are the people who operate as
>incident commanders during SAR missions).  He said it was
>the FCs' understanding that we did not want to be called out
>at night, period.  This is good to know, because it is easily
>fixed!  He also mentioned that in some parts of New Mexico
>(warmer parts than here) SAR misssions usually do not operate
>at all at night;  they wait until daylight.  Which boggles
>my mind:  when someone needs help, those hours are precious.
>Another bit of intelligence from this FC:  New Mexico has
>very few trackers, compared to other states.  This too is an
>opportunity for us.  Our unit has more than its fair share
>of cattle ranchers and elk hunters;  both activities promote
>at least track awareness.
>
>	Una Smith
>	Santa Fe County Sheriff's Posse, in New Mexico
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