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About SRRRMN

SRRRMN Vision

SRRRMN is a non-profit confederation of autonomous groups and individuals who are dedicated to providing quality search, rescue, and recovery services to assist and support public, private, and/or governmental agencies. The purposes of this organization are to promote and develop search, rescue, and recovery capabilities and resources in the State of Minnesota with the underlying principle of saving lives and reducing suffering.

A wide variety of established organizations exist to provide search and rescue and recovery services. The purpose of SRRRMN is to provide a means for those organizations to collaborate on training, emergency preparation, planning, and communications with units of government.

SRRRMN is itself not an operational source of emergency field-resources. It is, however, an information source. A key purpose of SRRRMN is to provide resource information to emergency managers and law enforcement leaders. To that end, SRRRMN will be developing an online resource directory which will be a future component of this web site.

SRRRMN Members

Members represent a wide range of skills, disciplines, and specialties. Examples include air-search, rural ground search and rescue, SAR dog teams (rural SAR, and urban disaster SAR), technical rescue (swift-water, steep terrain, etc.), and horse-mounted SAR.

Each member-organization also has its own distinct set of operating rules and standards. Where appropriate, and within specific disciplines, SRRRMN member-organizations may decide to collaborate on the creation of training and operational standards for use within those disciplines.

Member organizations include governmental and private entities, volunteer and for-hire personnel, and a variety of geographic operating areas. Some groups provide state-wide services, while others have local jurisdiction.

SRRRMN Mission

To bring together various groups and individuals that serve Minnesota in search, rescue, and recovery activities to pursue common goals.
- To form a cohesive search, rescue, and recovery community.
- To collaborate and cooperatively address issues common to member organizations such as: improving the safety, efficiency, effectiveness, communication, cooperation, and coordination of search, rescue, and recovery operations; and to promote the exchange of ideas, information, and expertise.
- To foster excellence among SRRRMN members.
To provide information regarding search, rescue, and recovery resources.
- To support and assist public, private, and governmental agencies in the location of lost and missing persons, in the rescue of ill and injured persons involved in technical rescue incidents, and/or in evidence, body, and disaster recovery operations.
- To develop, promote, and disseminate a statewide directory of specialized search, rescue, and recovery resources.
- To provide a liaison between SRRRMN’s member organizations and public service agencies.
- To promote regional search, rescue, and recovery primary service areas and mutual aid standards.
To provide search, rescue, and recovery training.
- To develop, promote, and disseminate search, rescue, and recovery curriculum.
- To educate key decision-makers among public, private, and governmental agencies as to the function and use of search, rescue, and recovery resources.
- To provide a forum for SRRRMN members to interact, train together, and conduct an on-going information exchange.
- To educate the public in search, rescue, and recovery issues.