Coquitlam SAR joined North Shore Rescue and Lions Bay SAR to search Stanley Park for a missing male. American actor Andrew Koenig had been missing since Feb 14th. Vancouver Police lead the search of the parks trail system and shoreline. A large group of friends also participated in the search. Unfortunately, Andrew Koenig was discovered …
Coquitlam SAR started 2010 off with three requests for our assistance in the first weekend. On January 1st, Coquitlam SAR was requested by the RCMP to search the PoCo Trail system for a lost male. The man had been on an all day walk along the PoCo Trail. Due to a pre-existing medical condition, his family …
Coquitlam Search and Rescue was contacted by the RCMP on Tuesday, November 17th, requesting our assistance in locating a male hiker on Eagle Ridge. The lone hiker had set out on a day hike up the Halvor Lunden trail towards Lindsay Lake. At around 4pm, the hiker realized he was still too high up on …
At approximately 1100hrs on Sunday March 1st, 2009 a group of four friends were hiking near Barton Point on the Halvor Lunden trail above Buntzen Lake after having spent the night camping in the Lindsay Lake area. While moving across a snow slope, one member of their group slipped and fell approximately 10m. He came …
Mike Neilson, a former Port Coquitlam firefighter and member of Coquitlam SAR has been accepted into the SAR Technician training course! Mike was one of the 6 people selected from across Canada to compete with 18 military personnel for 12 Search and Rescue Technician jobs with the Canadian Military. Mike writes to the team about the last 6 months: I …