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  • From: "Celia Tamker" <heavenonhorse@att.net>
  • To: <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [MSAR] MSAR in Georgia
  • Date: Thu Jan 9 08:31:05 2003

We are in middle GA right around Macon. MSAR is apparantly a new thing
here. We actually got started when a couple of members of our horse club
lost horses, and the vision of expanding to help local law enforcement in
finding people came. WE looked for training but were unable to be taken
seriously until a local chaper of the American Red Cross offered us courses.
Then after the Bibb County Emergency Management Agency called us in for a
couple of searches for people, they offered us the Georgia Emergency
Management Agegency Training so we can fall under their liability. SAR is
usualy conducted by the local law enforcement or EMA and they bring in
outside units like scuba divers, dog SAR, etc. We have been trying to get
the word out to other counties as well as looking to outside training. I'll
check into what you suggested. One of the requirements for our team is to
be CPR and First Aid certified and be GEMA certified. The other is to be an
experienced trail rider and have a good trail horse. Most of the members
have TWH or quarter horses. I'm the hold-out with my little Arab, but he
has done just fine. Some of our members are trained in large animal rescue
and we've also been called to help in that arena at times. WE licensed radio
operators here but we are required to have a hand radio and cell phone. We
still the the beginning stages. (just organized this past summer).

celia

> Hi Celia. Can you tell us more about
> your group, and SAR in Georgia? What are ARC and GEMA? How is SAR
managed in Georgia: is there a state-wide authority, as in New Mexico; or
is SAR managed independently by each county or
> other local agency, as in many eastern states? Is there an e-mail list
for SAR in Georgia, and have you subscribed to it?
>
> A good way to demonstrate you are serious is to get training outside your
local SAR system. For instance, by joining NASAR and attending their
training conferences, or by taking a course in Wilderness First Aid (several
national organizations offer these), or by going to a SAR conference in an
adjacent state.
> None of these training activities require advance recognition in your
local SAR system. Do you all have current basic First Aid and CPR
certificates? Are any of you licensed amateur radio operators? Does your
group have enough radios so that
> all teams carry at least one? You could also host your own
> SAR training; there are several NASAR instructors in Georgia:
> http://www.nasar.org/training/ga.shtml.
>
> Una Smith
> Santa Fe County Sheriff's Posse, in New Mexico






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