Silver Star Search and Rescue

06/19/2026

Six Southwest Washington SAR teams trained together in a simulated aircraft crash requiring day and nighttime rescue operations.

06/18/2026

Silver Star Search and Rescue was one of several surrounding teams to participate in a joint training exercise to enhance emergency response readiness.

Over the past weekend, over 100 volunteers from Silver Star Search and Rescue, Clark County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue, Cowlitz County Search and Rescue, Skamania County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue and Volcano Rescue Team participated in this training event.

Scenerio: airplane ✈️ crash requiring a coordinated search, rescue, medical care, and victim transport.

With temps upward of 100°, SAR personal hit the field with ground search teams, drone teams, K9, an Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT), medical team, and E-moto teams. Back at base, command, ops, logistics, planning, communications and admin worked side-by-side in Incident Command Systems (ICS).

Training exercises like this help strengthen our partnerships with surrounding teams and build our skills to enhance our response abilities in real life emergencies.

Silver Star Search and Rescue is made up entirely of volunteers that are on call 24/7, 365 days a year. Donations help us serve our community and maintain our equipment. Donating time or money; So Others May Live.

https://www.silverstarsar.org/donate.html

06/15/2026

Bringing our subject up in the 2nd scenerio

06/15/2026

Raising our subject

06/15/2026

Rope Tech 1- Day 3: This is where everything from the 1st 2 days comes together.

We practiced patient packaging, system rigging, and low angle with the litter at the tower. We then moved out in the field for steep angle rescue scenarios where we were able to put the training to use.

06/14/2026

Day 2: This is where the fun begins! We practiced repelling, raise & lower, and ascent/descent techniques

06/14/2026

Here's a peek at what the other half of our team is up to this weekend. More to come!

06/13/2026

SSSAR has a very eventful weekend of training. Part of our team is participating in Rope Rescue Tech 1 which is 3 full days of fun in the sun!

Meanwhile, another part of our team is out training with several surrounding teams - more to come in that!!

Day 1 was mostly lecture, with some hands-on:

06/07/2026

Good day for a bus bath! Thank you Troy & Eric!

05/04/2026