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Search & Rescue
SCRG is comprised of approximately 65 active members, seven of whom are mission coordinators. SCRG receives 100 to 200 requests for help each year, and these requests usually translate into 50 to 80 “all-call” missions.
SCRG is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. They are funded almost entirely by donations and grants; there is never a charge for their services. For more information, visit the SCRG website at www.scrg.org.
Search & Rescue also responds to the occasional downed hot-air balloon, crashed hang glider, airplane or helicopter accident, rolled four-wheel-drive vehicle and over-the-edge highway motor vehicle accident. An average mission runs for a few hours, but missions can extend overnight or even into multiple days for extractions in challenging terrain or missing parties that take time to locate.
The National Guard’s High Altitude Aviation Training Center (HAATS) in Eagle, Colorado also supplies helicopter support upon request to assist with air search operations and backcountry insertions and extractions.
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