Join Search and Rescue!

Join a Search & Rescue team and respond to statewide searches for missing individuals!

CalESAR, California Explorer Search and Rescue, is open to anyone 15 or older (or 14 and in high school,) male or female, with or without previous experience. Those who become involved will receive training in rescue procedures, tracking, wilderness navigation, first aid, rope skills, survival skills, snow survival, radio communication, and many more.

CalESAR’s Orientation Nights (please e-mail pr@calesar.org to RSVP):

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 7:30pm
Our Lady of Angels School
1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame, CA

Wednesday September 15, 2010 at 7:30pm
Sports Basement
1177 Kern Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94085

CalESAR is one of four state mutual aid teams affiliated with the California Emergency Management Agency, Law Enforcement Division. CalESAR has been active in Search and Rescue since 1971 and has responded to over 280 searches. There are approximately 100 active members of all ages on the team.

CalESAR has an eight-month training cycle that runs from October to May. There is a training preparation meeting held the first Wednesday evening of each month, with one two-day field training, each month, at various locations in and around the Bay Area. In addition, there is a nine-day Summer Camp held each year at Yosemite National Park and weekend outings in Yosemite on Memorial and Labor Day weekends.

For more information, please email: pr@calesar.org

Yosemite National Park, one of our many search areas.