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Search and Rescue
The Eureka Fire Protection District has a Search and Rescue Team that consists of Canine, Mounted, Ground, and Communications elements. The team is comprised of about 35 volunteers including nurses, businessmen, firefighters, police, and contractors.
The Search and Rescue Team was formed in 2002 after the Eureka Fire Protection District recognized that there was a need for trained volunteers when searching for lost, injured, or missing persons. It has grown from a mounted only unit to a multi-disciplined, self sufficient search team with its own communications and support capabilities along with trained planning and management personnel.
The team has Search & Rescue expertise in Incident Command / Search Operations, Communications, Mounted Search, Canine Search, and Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue.
Team Capabilities
- Incident Command / Search Operations:
These members are ICS/NIMS certified and are equipped with computerized mapping software to formulate search plans and track search progress. - Communications:
These members are trained in all aspects of communications and have their own communications network to include VHF and UHF radios, repeaters, and extenders. - Canine:
This group uses canines trained in Tracking/Trailing, Air Scent, and Human Remains Recovery. - Mounted:
As compared to ground searching; horses are faster, can carry more supplies to stay out longer, offer a higher viewing platform for searching, and provide a more rested rescue worker when a subject is found. The mounted unit uses well trained horses capable of searching large tracts of forest, fields, trails and other terrain. - Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue:
These members are trained in how to safely prepare for and approach large animal rescue incidents.
Highly Trained and Ready to Respond
All team members train year round in backcountry travel including map and compass, global positioning system (GPS) use, communications, first aid, evidence preservation, and search and rescue operations.
Members of the team carry pagers or cell phones so that all members can be instantly notified of a search call-out. When dispatched, each member of the team responds to the search area with their equipment, first aid supplies, and two-way radios for communication with search coordinators and other team members.
Law Enforcement and Fire Departments across Missouri and western Illinois have repeatedly requested our Search & Rescue teams to assist in all manner of searches and other incidents requiring trained searchers.
Searches include locating downed aircraft, lost hunters, hikers, or children, crime scene / evidence searches, and other emergency or disaster situations.
NIMS typing resouuces: ESF #9 Search & Rescue - Wilderness Search & Rescue Team Type I.
NIMS Reference Manual
The Search and Rescue Team can be contacted through Eureka Fire House 1 at 636-938-5505 or for an emergency response contact South County Fire Alarm through your emergency dispatch center.
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Call 636-938-5505 for more information.
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Eureka Fire Assists Joplin, MO
Eureka Fire District Firefighters and K-9 Unit have been deployed to assist with Search & Rescue in Joplin following the F-5 Tornado that hit that town Sunday evening, May 22, 2011.
Eureka Search & Rescue K-9 unit sent 4 dog handlers and dogs to search the debris in Joplin. The K-9 Unit deployed early Monday morning. The team then deployed a second time on Thursday, May 26 for a 48 hour search assingment.
Three Eureka Firefighters that are members of Missouri Task Force -1 Urban Search Rescue Team, depolyed to Joplin on Sunday evening May 22. Their assingment among many was seaching a Home Depot Store that had collasped durning the storm. This link is to a story about MoTF-1 by CNN.
Three Eureka Firefighters and the EFPD Technical Rescue Equipment depolyed with Strike Team 5 to Joplin on Monday, May 23. Strike Team 5 was made up of several Fire Districts in Franklin and Jefferson County including Eureka, Pacific and Boles FPD.
Want to Join Our Team?
Search and rescue team members must be at least 18 years of age, able to walk 3 miles cross country in 1.5 hours, attend monthly trainings, and furnish your own equipment. Contact us today to join a great team of individuals in this rewarding and life saving mission.
Eureka Fire Protection District|
Attn:
P.O. Box 97
Eureka, MO 63025
Phone: (636) 938-5505 or email:
http://www.efpd.org
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