December 2nd and 3rd, 2023 we had our BSAR and recertification. Those who did it the previous year only had to do our recertification, and those who were new had to go through the 2-day course. The 2-day course is mainly made up of map and compass work, which is a skill set that is […]
Photo credit: John Hemingway Today BAYSAR held its final training event at our 1570 Airport Road facility. BAYSAR trained and certified a total of 6 OPP officers from the North Bay Detachment as Project Lifesaver Electronic Search Specialists on October 17 and 18. BAYSAR will have improved capacity to support public safety as we move […]
It was a soggy, cold late August night as more than a dozen BAYSAR volunteers gathered at the former E.W. Norman school parking lot. On this night the crew gathered to work with North Bay Police on a rescue training exercise. In the lot, the volunteers and police share photos of the missing person. French […]
Michael Kerzner who is the MPP for York Centre and Solicitor General for Ontario posted about Project Lifesaver on their Facebook page thanking Vic Fedeli and the collaboration between BAYSAR and the York Regional Police. Michael Kerzner Project Lifesaver will train police to find vulnerable people via air search and rescue teams, saving valuable time […]
Every minute counts when trying to find a missing, vulnerable person. The average time to find a Project Lifesaver client is 30 minutes, but when ground searchers can’t pick up a signal right away, being able to search from an aircraft makes the system work even better. Stan French, President of BAYSAR Air Search and […]
Dan and Stan attended an entire day of training at the NE Region OPP HQ yesterday. It was annual training for SAR Managers from all the NE Region detachments. They were invited, as part of OSARVA, to participate. Stan was also asked to make a presentation about BAYSAR history and capability. Stan offered, and they […]
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 […]
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 […]
