“This video was taken in the field by a NBPS member on Oct 19, 2022, during a Project Lifesaver search and rescue exercise (SAREX). It shows the final stage of locating our volunteer who was acting as a missing person equipped with a Project Lifesaver transmitter. The missing person had wandered off from a hiking […]
During the afternoon (Sept 14th, 2002) the newly trained OPP officers participated in a search and rescue exercise (SAREX) organized by BAYSAR. Volunteers with BAYSAR acted as missing persons in three scenarios of increasing difficulty. BAYSAR instructors assisted the OPP during the SAREX. In the final, most difficult scenario, BAYSAR supplied a helicopter and aircrew […]
Sirens in the Park, Callander, ON, August 20, 2022
Nugget StaffPublishing date:Jan 07, 2022 • 1 week ago • 2 minute read It took less than an hour for a missing child to be discovered on Boxing Day after the child’s grandmother heard a yell in the distance. The search involved members of Baysar Air Search and Rescue, the North Bay Police Service, Callander Fire and Emergency Services, District […]
‘Hypothermia can be a killer in a short time if you are wet, especially in freezing temperatures’ Jeff TurlJan 7, 2022 3:53 PM Listen to this article00:03:28 A ‘vulnerable’ child, lost in a bush and swampy area of Callander over the Christmas holidays was saved, in part, by a remarkable device that directed rescuers to the […]
On October 23, 2021, NBPS received a call that a Project Lifesaver client was missing. The client had been missing for two hours before family members called 911. Cst. Oerton attended the residence while Cst. Hofmann started a mobile search with a Project Lifesaver receiver. With just two radio receivers the missing person was found […]
PJ Wilson Publishing date:Oct 27, 2021 • 6 days ago • 3 minute read • When a vulnerable person goes missing, every minute counts. In the past year, three people in North Bay, clients of Project Lifesaver, were reported missing to North Bay police. Police, Baysar hone lifesaving skills All were found within minutes of the search starting. “For us, time […]
Sept 2021 BAYSAR did the official OSARVA training and it was awesome. The bulk majority of was compass training which is incredibly crucial if your GPS no longer works and you need to get yourself out. We started of just by using the compass with a heading to go in a straight line and back […]
Sudbury Star Staff Jul 10, 2021 The OPP’s Nipissing West and North Bay detachments, in conjunction with BAYSAR Air Search and Rescue of North Bay, have announced that Project Lifesaver is up and running in West Nipissing and North Bay OPP jurisdictions. From Verner to Mattawa, from Marten River to Powassan and in all the […]
The North Bay Police Service confirms a missing person reported this past weekend was located deceased. The woman was first reported missing on Saturday and after an intensive search over two days, in poor weather conditions, police report she was located deceased on Sunday. NBPS says they will provide no further information and is expressing […]
