What is SRRRMN?

SRRRMN is not an operational source of emergency field-resources -- it is simply a source of information about a wide variety of established organizations that exist to provide search, 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 Mission

Bring together various groups and individuals that serve Minnesota in search, rescue, and recovery activities to pursue common goals. 

• Form a cohesive search, rescue, and recovery community.
• 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
• Promote the exchange of ideas, information, and expertise.
• Foster excellence among SRRRMN members.

Provide search, rescue, and recovery training.

• Develop, promote, and disseminate search, rescue, and recovery curriculum.
• Educate key decision-makers among public, private, and governmental agencies as to the function and use of search, rescue, and recovery resources.
• Provide a forum for SRRRMN members to interact, train together, and conduct an on-going information exchange.
• Educate the public in search, rescue, and recovery issues.

Provide information regarding search, rescue, and recovery resources.

• 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.
• Develop and promote specialized search, rescue, and recovery resources.
• Provide a liaison between SRRRMN’s member organizations and public service agencies.
• Promote regional search, rescue, and recovery primary service areas and mutual aid standards.