HALIFAX REGIONAL SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM
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Mission Statement
We are a volunteer organization funded through community support and fundraising. We are on stand-by for lost person incidents and civil emergencies 24 hours a day. We also educate children and adults through our learning programs.
About This Cause
The mandate of Halifax Regional Search and Rescue is to locate and rescue lost persons within our jurisdiction, in the best possible condition. However, Halifax Regional Search and Rescue serves the community in many other ways, including evidence searches with local police authorities, wilderness survival and education sessions for children and adults, evacuations and other civil emergency responses in cooperation with the Emergency Measures Organization (Nova Scotia and Halifax Regional Municipality). Many of the lost subjects we search for are children. Knowing that if we could reach children at an early age and teach them basic survival skills, we could dramatically improve their chances for survival and their probability of being found should they become lost, Halifax Regional Search and Rescue introduced the Children’s Woods-proofing program. Team members travel to elementary schools, as well as Cub and Brownie groups, teaching the woods-proofing course. A film is shown, and with the aid of a simple book and lively discussion, the children learn the basics of woods survival. The Halifax Regional Search & Rescue Team is a non-profit, volunteer organization. The Team is registered as a charity with Canada Customs and Revenue Agency. The Team receives a small Provincial grant each year to support its operations. While this grant assists operations, over 95% of the Team’s operations are funded by the community through local fund raising activities and a small grant from Halifax Regional Municipality. HRSAR is one of four Ground Search and Rescue teams that serve the Halifax Regional Municipality (Halifax county.) The other teams in HRM are Eastern Shore Ground Search and Rescue, Sheet Harbour Search and Rescue, and the Musquodoboit Valley GSAR team. There are over twenty Ground Search and Rescue teams in Nova Scotia; all are non-profit volunteer organizations.