Training

It’s winter, it’s cold and there’s new snow on the ground. What’s a SAR team to do? How about a night climb up our local ski hill – Pajarito Mountain at 10,420 feet! Perfect way to check out new snowshoes and other gear as well as practice cooking dinner in the snow and generally staying […]

The last few missions for the Brigade in the Sandia Mountains were on the La Luz trail and the subjects were found deceased. Given the unfortunate history of missions on the La Luz one of our members thought it would be beneficial to hike the La Luz trail outside of mission space. Saturday October 23rd

June 26th three members of the Brigade joined Pajarito Canines in a joint training session. Brigade members learned about the capabilities of the PK9 search dogs as well as the basics of how they are trained. As we are sometimes called upon to help support the canine search teams anything we learn about search dogs

Many years ago when current Brigade member Tom Houlton was President of the Los Alamos Mobile Emergency Services Association (LAMESA) they acquired an ATV. Zia Credit Union had repossessed the vehicle and was going to auction it off. Tom managed to get Zia Credit Union to donate the ATV to LAMESA. When, in 2001, LAMESA

May 15th 2021 our SAR Team Leader conducted a spring training session on line search and Probability of Detection (POD). POD is one of the variables in an equation to determine how well an area has been searched. The Probability of Success equals the probability the subject is in the area times the POD. POS

The series of videos below demonstrate how to setup the Brigade Cascade Rescue Litter for use. Packaging a patient in the litter is not covered in these videos. Pour your favorite beverage, pop some popcorn and sit back for riveting entertainment. Ok, riveting is NOT a turn I would use… The primary advantage of the

First off – many thanks to all those that supported our fundraiser for the litter! Our Search and Rescue Team Leader had been hoping for a “real” winter for a winter training session. Enough of a winter that members could test out their winter gear and we could move a patient on our new litter

2021 started out with two similar type of missions – a person walking away from their car and not making it home. The January 16th mission is a continuation of mission 149 where Brigade members assisted in searching for an individual who had been missing since Thanksgiving. His car was found abandoned north of Abiquiu.