Twenty-one volunteers are now qualified to participate in wilderness search and rescue operations across the region and ready to join the ranks of the Oswego and Onondaga County Search and Rescue teams.
“Our teams provide vital life-saving assistance in our communities,” said Oswego County SAR Team Coordinator Aaron Albrecht. “When people call ‘9-1-1’ to report a lost or missing person, our teams are dispatched to support a search.”
He explained that, due to the critical nature of this service, “the joint SAR academy trains volunteers to become members of the Oswego County Pioneer and Onondaga County Wilderness Search and Rescue teams. Students gain a solid background in essential search and rescue skills and receive the knowledge and ‘hands-on’ experience they need to safely and effectively operate as ground search volunteers,” he said…