21 Mar 2012

Team Members Sonny and Calius Lawrence Talk SAR at Local School

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29 Feb 2012

Technical Rope Rescue Training at the Baldy Cut

16 Nov 2011

Newest Members Complete the BSAR Academy

One of the first hoops that a new member must complete is the Basic Search and Rescue Academy. Students are evaluated on survival skills and basic search and rescue skills such as tracking and search techniques. Two new members of the Cave & Technical Rescue Team completed the academy in October.

 

3 Aug 2011

NCRC Level I Weekend 2: Classroom, Cliff, Cave, and Rain

21 Jul 2011

NCRC Level I Weekend 1

19 Jun 2011

Cave Team's Biannual PVS & TRBC Skills Check-off

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This year there was a surprise in the helicopter on the tower in Rialto. The mother owl made a racket when she cleared the cockpit, but her 6 owlets made no sound.

28 May 2011

National Cave Rescue Commission Level I Seminar

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Cave & Technical Rescue Team will host a NCRC Level I Cave Rescue Seminar in a modular format. Course details and registration information are availble in the flyer below.

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23 May 2011

Mine Search

Members of the Barstow DRS, Cave Team, SB Mountain SAR, and West Valley SAR completed a search mission in a mine.

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22 May 2011

Rope Rescue Training in Joshua Tree NP

The Cave Team and San Bernardino Mountain SAR spent the day practicing a variety of technical rope rescue techniques in Joshua Tree National Park.

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18 Apr 2011

Cave Training

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We spent the day practicing cave search, horizontal movement, and vertical rescue techniques. We have found that radios work well in Southern California boulder-talus caves. The litter shield designed by Paul Stovall for use on the OSS works well too. A dropped radio bounced off the patient's face without incident...to the patient. There are a variety of skylights in a boulder-talus cave that may be suitable for evacuation, but it is often difficult to assess them from the top or bottom exclusively. We put an avalance transceiver on each search team to be activated in the event that they found the patient. This was then used to attempt to pinpoint their location from the surface. Amazingly, it worked rather well. This will warrent further study.

Cave & Technical Rescue Team's Space

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Cave & Technical Rescue Team is composed of unpaid professional rescuers who serve under the auspices of the San Bernardinio County Sherff. We are a Cal-EMA Type 1 Technical Rope, Type 1 Wilderness Search, Type 1 Alpine, and Type 1 Cave Rescue Team.

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