Congratulations to the graduates of the Sheriff's Basic Search & Rescue Academy, Class 01-2009! All 24 students who began the Academy on March 6th graduated last Sunday morning.
Their final weekend began Saturday morning at 0730 hours with instruction, review and their written exam. Upon finishing the exam they grabbed their SAR Pack and went into the field to build a fire and cook dinner (also a test). As soon as it got dark they were "called out" for a search scenario and assigned to search teams with experienced mentors to act as leaders. They successfully located clues and ultimately the victim, packaged him in a litter and carried him out to the road to complete the exercise.
Once they retuned to the CP they checked out and were sent off into the brush to construct a bivy for the night using the contents of their SAR Pack.
The BSAR 01-2009 graduates:
Apple Valley Mounted Posse: Robert Crawford, George D'Isabella & Dearld Wicker
Bear Valley SAR: Chuck Thompson
Cave & Technical Rescue Team: Calius Baldwin
East Valley Mounted Posse: Sgt. Coordinator David Caddel
Morongo Basin SAR: Mirta Johnson, Jamie Jones, Lesley Mahany & Dawn Rowe
Needles SAR: James Barlow
Rim of the World SAR: Allison Banner, Scott Weiland & Joei Wyndroski
San Bernardino Mountain SAR: Gilbert Cruz
Victor Valley SAR: John Hrubik, Robert Lancraft, Daniel Larson & Kim Larson
West Valley SAR: Daniel Carlson, Tom Greene, David Schock & Juan Tojin
Wrightwood SAR: Donna Shea
Welcome to the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Search & Rescue Family!
I would like to extend a personal Thank You to the following SAR members who acted as mentors for the class during their Search Scenario Saturday night:
Bear Valley SAR: Mike Westover
Cave & Technical Rescue: Sonny Lawrence
Rim of the World SAR: Charles DeBruyn & Mike Shaw
San Bernardino Mountain SAR: Mike Ward, Justin Wheaton & Mark Biloki
Victor Valley SAR: Craig Ebright & Denny Wells
West Valley SAR: Frank Kams, Pedro Ligorrio & Tom Henderson
West Valley Mounted Posse: Greg Ogden
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