SBCSAR Overview
- members are unpaid volunteers on call all year, 24/7
- provide rescue services on behalf of the Sheriff's Department
- high-angle rock rescue
- swiftwater rescue
- car-over-the-side accidents
- downed aircraft
- search operations for overdue hikers, hunters, children and bikers
- provides assistance to detectives and coroners
- mutual aid to other SAR teams across California
- part of the Sheriff Department's Special Operations Division
- community outreach with county events, races and Hug-a-Tree program
- started in 1962
Santa Barbara County Search & Rescue, Inc.
- 501 (c) (3) public benefit corporation
- provides funding, recruitment, and training for the SAR program
- www.sbcsar.org for information on how to help SAR
SBCSAR Statistics
31 Members
- 83 calls
- 64 people helped
- 3165 incident hours
- 18 trainings
- 2208 training hours
- $100,314 saved by the county
(calculated using the 2002 value of a CA volunteer's time)
SBCSAR Training
- members train twice per month
- members attend additional special trainings for
- search management
- alpine rescue
- swiftwater rescue
- recruitment occurs in the fall of each year
- candidates undergo a 50 hour Academy
