Give the Gift of Someone Being Found!

If you're a snowboarder, skier, hiker, climber, or a person who ever leaves the house, there is a chance that someday you or someone you know may require the help of search and rescue.  This holiday season, consider helping our team to continue to operate by making an online donation.  Donations of $25 or more will receive a  BAMRU t-shirt in return.  Wishing everyone safe and happy holidays from BAMRU!

To redeem your t-shirt, send your donation confirmation with shirt size, color, and shipping information to jamescutsinger at yahoo.com     click here to donate

New Redwood City Home

For more than 15 years, BAMRU's Redwood City location has been 500 Allerton in Redwood City.

Starting this week, BAMRU moves to a new home in Redwood City. Our new Redwood City meeting location will be 455 County Center, Room 101.

Note that BAMRU will continue to use the same location in Castro Valley for our bi-monthly East Bay meetings.

Our next meeting in our new Redwood City location will be Monday, May 16 at 7:30pm.

BAMRU 2010 Activity Summary

13 Significant SARs (1438.5 hrs)
-- Point Reyes
-- Santa Clara SAR
-- Nevada County
-- Butte County #1
-- WS-100
-- Point Reyes
-- Bunker Hill
-- San Bruno Fire
-- Butte County #2: Loren Harvey
-- Hillsborough: Memorial Park
-- Loma Mar
-- Storm Watch
-- Alpine Meadows

Outreach activities (Highlights):
-- Skye Memorial Service
-- SAREX conference/training presentations
-- Joint Trainings Marin Fire Rescue
-- Stanford University Medical School lecture
-- Hug-a-Tree Lectures
-- San Mateo County Jail ERT

22 Trainings (4351.5 hrs)
-- AIARE I – Avalanche
-- Winter Mountaineering
-- County Storm Watch
-- BASARC Incident Command
-- Mock SAR
-- Trainee Skills Days
-- SAR Basic
-- General SAR Skills
-- Rock Skills
-- SO Vehicle Training
-- Alpine Mountaineering
-- Basic Technical Skills
-- Advanced Technical Skills
-- Medical Skills Refresher
-- Advanced Litter Handling
-- Escape From Alcatraz

32 Meetings (703 hrs)
-- Board of Directors Conference Calls
-- Board of Directors Meetings
-- General Membership Meetings

1 Recertification (519 hrs)
-- Tracking and Search Management

These statistics only cover those hours captured and recorded by the unit secretary, there are many more hours put in by each and every member in the unit that are not captured. Thanks to each and every BAMRU member for your ongoing support and dedication.

Special Thanks to Tom Grossman our Unit Leader for his 3 years of outstanding leadership and to Ethan Frantz our Training Officer for successfully coordinating 22 trainings.

Outstanding work!

Bill Parker
Unit Secretary, Bay Area Mountain Rescue Unit

BAMRU 2009 Activity Summary

Activity [Hours]

1. Training [2834]
2. SAR [714]
3. Other [529]
4. Recertification [380]
5. Meetings [355]

TOTAL Hours [4812]

Training (Highlights)

• Rigging for Rescue
• BASARC Section Chief
• ICS-400 Certification
• AIARE Avy 1

SAR Operations (Highlights)

• Corte De Madera - 11 Operational Periods, subject recovered (In County Mutual Aid)
• Cutter Search - subject found alive (In County Mutual Aid)
• 92 cliff op (In County)
• Belmont SAR (In County)
• Costal MVA Rescue (In County)
• Alameda SAR (Out of County Mutual Aid)
• Napa SAR (Out of County Mutual Aid)
• Ortiz Search, Oakland (Out of County Mutual Aid)
• Cantu Search, Tracy (Out of County Mutual Aid)
• Dinky Lakes Wilderness, Sierra National Forest (Out of County)
• Treasure Lakes, Sierra National Forest (Out of County)

Recertification

• MRA Winter Recertification

SAR Community Activities (Highlights)

• Oakland Memorial Service
• Modesto Memorial/Vigil
• SLOSAR Memorial
• BATSAR
• COCO MRA test/prep
• Joint Training Marin Fire Rescue