To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [MSAR] Being a spontaneous volunteer/novice
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:37:10 -0600
Tm' Fi wrote, addressing Irv Lichtenstein:
> Until your team becomes operational, it has been the TROTSAR
>Mounted Team who has and continues to be called by the PA State Police
>to perform Mounted SAR function for the Southern tier region of your
>State, which includes your 5 county region.
What? Should the AHJ call only half the available MSAR resources,
for a search that needs all the resources it can get? And should
SAR units be in the habit of divvying up turf among themselves? I
prefer something more like an open market system.