To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [MSAR] SAR training in Georgia (USA)
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:04:46 -0400
IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN wrote:
>Reading the statute the organization must be licensed and this seems to
>merely require that the organization be organized-- 24/7 dispatch contact,
>defined service area for dog team NGO's. GEMA can set quality standards
>apparently but this only applies to dog teams. What about all the other
>NGO's required to be "licensed"?
Reading the entire text of the 2001 Act, it singles out SAR dogs (must
be a backstory there!) but includes all nongovernmental providers of SAR
response. That may mean an organization or an individual. It is so
incredibly vague.
On the web I found only one Georgia SAR team that mentions GEMA licenses.
I have asked them to drop by and tell us more about it.