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KISAR will hold a general membership training on Saturday January 18 covering avalanche transceiver use and avalanche rescue. We will meet at 9:30 AM at Bayside Fire Hall to go over gear and possible training scenarios. The training itself will … Continue reading →

KISAR will hold its general membership meeting Thursday January 16 at 7 PM at Bayside Fire Hall. Following the general membership meeting (7:30 PM) Philip will present a slideshow and lecture on avalanche transceiver theory and use that will lay … Continue reading →

KISAR will conduct a general membership rope training on Saturday, December 7. We will meet at Bayside Fire Hall at 9 am for some classroom activities and then, weather permitting, will do some field exercises outside around noon. If the … Continue reading →

KISAR will not be holding a membership meeting for the month of November. Everyone have a great Thanksgiving!

KISAR will hold a training on Saturday, November 16. We will meet at Bayside Fire Hall at 9 AM for a briefing before proceeding to the end of Monashka Bay Road at White Sands Beach for an orienteering and small-team search … Continue reading →

KISAR will hold its general membership meeting Thursday September 19 at 7 PM at Bayside Fire Hall. After the meeting we will go over the National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR) mobile phone app for search and rescue field … Continue reading →

For KISAR’s August training, a number of members headed out to Anton Larsen Bay to rock climb on a granite wall. It required a short boat ride and was mostly meant to be a fun outing but also teach basic … Continue reading →

KISAR will hold its monthly general membership meeting this Thursday August 15 at 7:00 pm at Bayside Fire Hall. The Kodiak Deputy Fire Chief , Frank Dorner, will go over both arm and leg vacuum splints that have been added … Continue reading →

KISAR will hold its monthly general membership meeting this Thursday July 18 at 7:00 pm at Bayside Fire Hall. After the meeting Philip T will talk about light-weight camping gear and a proposed backpacking route from Sharatin Mountain to Heitman … Continue reading →

For July’s training, KISAR is extremely pleased to have Paul Anderson return to Kodiak to teach a course in Initial Response Incident Commander topics of search and rescue. Paul has visited Kodiak to teach search theory and practicals for KISAR … Continue reading →