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Depressed open skull fracture
The subject is a 6 year old male who presented with a 4cm gash over the right eye. He reported no loss of consciousness, GCS 14, and no signs of neurological deficits were apparent. Bleeding was...
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Last week a member of my SAR team’s RCMP detachment contacted us about whether we would like to take a look at a few cold cases they had on file to see if we could offer any advice. This made me think...
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SAR Media Tropes
A trope is a kind of conceptual shorthand often used in storytelling for a concept that an audience will recognise instantly. An example of this is the cigar chomping soldier – you don’t even need to...
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Long term SAR Trends in British Columbia
Emergency Management BC published the yearly summary statistics for emergency response in BC and like last year I did some analysis. We now have 20 years of statistics on SAR in BC! You may recall that...
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The Snapchat search
I’ve posted many times before about the importance of using Social Media in SAR – both from the perspective of communicating to the public about what your team is doing, and for investigating a missing...
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Accidental Triggering of SPOT device
Recently, both Canada Parks Mountain Safety and Kananaskis Country Public Safety Section have posted on Facebook about accidentally triggered Satellite Emergency Notification Devices – also known as...
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Reflections on 2017
Hey, it’s another self reflective blog post about the year in review. Blogging In 2017 I did almost no blogging – I published 10 blog posts including this one. I drafted another 4 posts and never...
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“Dog Walker” Behaviour Profile
On November 20th my SAR team was paged for a missing dog walker in the Coquitlam area. By luck of the draw (we have a rotating schedule) I was “on deck” – one of the three managers designated by the...
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Are “selfies” hazardous?
With the recent death and recovery of three people from Shannon Falls, several of whom have confirmed to have been prolific travel vloggers and instagram personalities, the idea of selfies being...
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Backcountry Safety is a Shared Responsibility
From my twitter post on the topic, archived here Backcountry safety is a shared resposibility, a thread.Recently, North Shore Rescue rescued a hiker that was abandoned by her group and it bothers me,...
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