Yamhill County Search and Rescue "That Others May Live"
The Yamhill County Search and Rescue Team meets at the Public Works Building on Lafayette Avenue in McMinnville on the Third Thursday of each month at 7 pm.
For Information, please contact the Sheriff's Office at
503-434-7506
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The Yamhill County Search and Rescue Team is an part of the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office. We perform Wilderness Search and Rescue, Urban Search and Rescue, Lost person searches, Lost Child searches, Downed Aircraft searches, Alzheimer's searches, and Crime Scene Searches. In addition to our search and rescue missions, we have a mission of preventative search and rescue. The majority of our searches are in Yamhill County, but through our mutual aid agreements, we do respond to requests from other agencies to assist them with searches in their counties.
Our group is made up of volunteers dedicated to serving Yamhill County. Our members come from many different walks of life. Our members are certified to the Oregon State Sheriff Association's standards for Search and Rescue.
Our members are trained in the following areas:
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Incident Command System
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Radio Procedures and Techniques
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First Aid & CPR
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Environmental Injuries
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Map and Compass
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Emergency Locator Trasmitter Tracking
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Outdoor Survival
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GPS Training
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Search Techniques
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Search Dogs
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Crime Scene Searching
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Intro to mantracking
Designed by Yamhill County Search and Rescue, 2009