Support Search and Rescue
The Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue team is composed of volunteers who donate hundreds of hours per year and spend hundreds of dollars on personal equipment in order to perform their duties. While the Sheriff's Department provides some funding, most team equipment is purchased through the donation of funds from many charitable foundations and generous individuals.
You can now support the team by shopping at Amazon! Just click through using the link below and SBCSAR gets a portion of your sale.
The team is currently pursuing funds to purchase the following equipment:
Under $100
Chain Saw Safety Equipment - Protective Chaps and Helmet
$500-$1000
Plastic Stretcher
$1500-$2000
Titan Rescue Stretcher
Cardiac Science Automatic External Defibrillator
To help the team with these items, please contact us by phone or email.
Secure online donations by credit card can be made through JustGive.org
Checks can be mailed to:
Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue
PO Box 6602
Santa Barbara, CA 93160-6602
Donations are 100% tax deductible and sincerely appreciated!
Santa Barbara Search and Rescue would like to express its heartfelt appreciation to the following organizations for their support. Without this generosity we would not be able to assist those in need:
- Valley Foundation - GPS units, digital camera, radio and vehicle equipment
- Towbes Foundation - out-of-house training
- Santa Barbara Foundation - rescue vehicles
- Santa Barbara Charitable Rotary Foundation - helmets
- Moser Foundation - communication equipment
- Big Dog Foundation - K9 program
- Hutton Foundation - all-terrain vehicles, improvements to SAR station
- Raintree Foundation - K9 program, rescue vehicles, medical training
- Tenet Healthcare Foundation - medical training
- Venoco Community Partnership - improvements to SAR station
- United Way - general support
- Lompoc Women's Club - general support
- Glikbarg Foundation - general support
Local Individuals and Corporations
- Boeing
- Jordanos
- Apio, Inc
- Santa Barbara Motorsports
- Santa Barbara Chicken Ranch
- Adventours
- Priscilla Eshelman
- John Kades
- Don Barthelmess - winner of a Spend a Day with Search and Rescue outing!
- James Towle
- Kallman Family
- Patsy Dorsey and the Santa Barbara Nine Trails participants
