The Emergency Response Team Search & Rescue (ERT SAR)
HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE | SEARCH | TECH RESCUE | MEDICAL RESPONSE | MANAGEMENT | LOGISTICS | SAFETY | SECURITY | EDUCATION
ERTSAR FIRE RESCUE
We have had several specialist Departments since 2002 such as our ERTSAR Fire Rescue.
We are also listed resource to First Nations on the Indigenous Fire Service Directory and the Fire Corps Program as well as being coordinated by the UN INSARAG and our Chiefs are Members of the International Assoc Fire Chiefs.
ERTSAR is an All Hazards International Disaster Response Search and Rescue team specializing in Technical Rescue and Medical response in the immediate aftermath of a major incident or disaster (such as a geological, hydrometeorological, technological, incident etc. (like earthquakes and flooding.)
We provide missing person search and rescue, especially in the case of high risk missing persons or in hazardous environments such as disasters and waterways. We also provide essential support services and enhance our local community resilience and needed surge capacity through a range of services from (emergency and off road) vehicles and transportation to chainsaw and debris removal following a storm.
Our Why
We were established to provide relief and assistance of people locally, nationally or any part of the world who are the victims of war or natural disaster, trouble, or catastrophe in particular by the supply of medical aid or search & rescue services to such persons.
We also provide training and education to support our objectives and build capacity and resilience.
ERTSAR is a specialist All Hazards team, A Specialist Fire Department, A medical Response Service... Humanitarians.
Our motto is:
"That Others May Live."
These are a few of our operational focus this year although our full list of capacities is way more extensive.
SERVICES
From Disaster Response to Search and Rescue (SAR) to Capacity Building and Training Missions, ERTSAR provides humanitarian services.
"Our vision is a safer, more secure and prepared world against emergencies and disasters of all kinds" and we provide that service locally, regionally and internationally - usually using emergency services.
MARINE OPS
Our Marine Unit is a team who respond as a fully amphibious service involving water including moving, swift, floods and ice.
FIRE RESCUE
Our Fire Rescue services / Fire department includes Wildland Fire response, bush and grassfires as well as structural & other fires.
MEDICAL SERVICES
ERTSAR have many professional and designated medics including Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics, EMTs / EMRs and other medical members.
OUR FULL PURPOSE (Drop down)
We were established to provide relief and assistance of people in any part of the world who are the victims of war or natural disaster, trouble, or catastrophe in particular by the supply of medical aid or rescue service to such persons.
As well as, the relief of sickness, suffering and injury caused by any natural or man-made disaster by the provision of emergency medical aid, and the re-establishment of health and associated services and the rehabilitation of such victims where possible.
We also provide the advancement of the education of the public by the provision of training and facilities to enable them to aid and assist in care and treatment of victims of such disasters.
We are also the umbrella body to other official ERT SAR humanitarian teams.
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