Sauvetage Bénévole Outaouais - Ottawa Volunteer SAR

Instructional material from Sauvetage Bénévole Outaouais - Ottawa Volunteer Search and Rescue (SBO-OVSAR) to complement our website. How do we get a stretcher out of the woods? What does a search and rescue team look like when it is out in the field? What equipment does a ground search carry with them? This is the type of content we hope to produce and upload here.

SBO-OVSAR has been serving the Ottawa-Gatineau area since 1996.  (Our name was Search and Rescue Global 1, or SAR Global 1, until 2014). We are a not-for-profit 100% volunteer organization. The group is composed of volunteers from various backgrounds including public and private sector employees, students and retirees. From over 100 members, we can rapidly deploy trained volunteers who are certified to respond in both Ontario and Quebec at the request of any police department.