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At 5:30 PM Wednesday Coquitlam SAR was contacted by the Burnaby RCMP to assist in the search for a missing 61 year old woman with dementia at Lougheed Mall. The woman was last seen at 1:30 PM that day, in the mall. The team activated and 22 members searched wilderness, parks and interstitial spaces between industrial, …

Coquitlam Search and Rescue is pleased to announce a significant funding milestone has been reached in our goal to replace our ageing Mobile Command Centre. We were recently notified of two grants. The Province of British Columbia, through the Community Gaming Grant Program has awarded Coquitlam SAR $195,000 The City of Coquitlam, through the Spirit of Coquitlam …

Coquitlam SAR responded to 30 tasks in 2014 for a total of 2700 person hours of effort. We searched for 29 subjects, and the team was in the field for 39 operational periods, as some searches are more than one day in length. These numbers are slightly down from 2013 when the team responded to 39 searches, …

Coquitlam SAR was out searching Burke Mountain on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, and the effort highlighted again the need to replace Coquitlam 1, our 20 year old mobile command centre. The replacement project, which has been in the planning stage for just over a year, launched into the fundraising phase this summer. As the team …

At 9:15 PM on Wednesday November 26th, Coquitlam SAR was informed of a medical rescue on Burke Mountain. A member of the public, a HAM radio operator, was scanning frequencies when he heard a distress call on an FRS Radio (also known as the Family Radio Service) frequency. The caller said his name and that he …