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Grant County Sheriff’s Office
Search & Rescue ( GCSO SAR )
Overview
Vision
GCSO SAR provides various search and rescue services to
Grant County and our neighboring counties under mutual aid
agreements through the Oregon State Sheriff’s Association and
the Oregon Office of Emergency Management in Salem, Oregon.
GCSO SAR averages 3 SAR missions a month, about 35 in this last
year. As of October 1st, 2020 we already have 36 missions for
2020. GCSO SAR has monthly meetings, weekend and weeknight
trainings most of the year. Our missions for the last year included
a plethora of overdue hunters (our busiest season), overdue
motorists, hikers, campers ranchers and explorers. Our missions
also include helping to rescue/extricate injured horsemen with
broken legs, people having heart attacks in remote areas and
assistance with evacuations during fires and floods. Due to COVID
the forests in Grant County have seen, in some areas, a 10-fold
increase in forest use over last year with visitors coming from all
over the Northwest, many from Idaho and Washington.
Our goal at GCSO SAR is to develop a team of well trained and
skilled volunteers (about 30 of them) with enough training
equipment and other resources so that we can handle most
any SAR mission which comes our way. We are currently about
1/2 way to our staffing and equipment needs goals. COVID
has created some training challenges for us but we continue to
improve our skills and training for new members.
Mission Statement
Protect life – minimize the loss of life, injury, property damage or
loss by rendering aid to persons in distress.
Giving Opportunities
We are always looking for funding. Please make out any
donation to GCSO SAR. We will start our annual new member
recruitment November 1, 2020 through February 28, 2021;
come by the Sheriff’s Office for information and an application.
Our team needs all kinds and types of support and professional
personalities which enjoy teamwork and the SAR mission: to
save lives.
Fundraising Events
Ticket sales/raffles, county fair/special events, auction/
trap-shoot.
Directors / Volunteers
Cindy Lemke, Kim Kell, Nathan Gordanier, Carl Metler
Sponsored By
205 S Humbolt St., Canyon City, OR 97820
541-575-1131 • Doblerd@grantcounty-or.gov • www.facebook.com/GrantCountySAR
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