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Tahoe, California (December 9, 2021)-Tahoe Fund allocated $30,250 to Tahoe Nordic Search & Rescue and Washoe County Sheriff's Office Hasty Team for key equipment upgrades. The two regional volunteer search and rescue teams jointly responded to more than 120 missions last year and now have new tools to help improve the effectiveness and efficiency of future rescues.
"These volunteer rescue teams have worked hard in all kinds of weather and terrain. They are ready 24/7. Part of the preparation is to have the latest equipment, and Tahoe Fund is happy to achieve this goal," Tahoe Fund Vice Chairman Cory Ritchie said. "We are very grateful for their life-saving contributions to Tahoe's safety and sustainable entertainment."
Since 1976, Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue has been conducting fast, thorough and safe rescues, and at the same time educating the public on field safety to reduce the number of accidents. The team consists of EMT, emergency room doctors and nurses, firefighters, ski patrols, paramedics, and experienced backcountry skiers and snowmobile riders who volunteer their time to help others.
"The Tahoe Fund grant allows us to purchase a new set of GPS tracking radio equipment to keep up with the development of our volunteer team," said Andrew Oesterreicher, board member of Tahoe Nordic Search & Rescue. "With the new radio, we can ping to where the team members are each time they press the microphone button. This provides more security for our team members on site and allows the command post personnel to record which areas Have been searched and by whom."
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Washoe County Sheriff's Hasty Team was founded in 1971 and is composed of unpaid professionals from the northern region of Nevada. The team specializes in field, mountain, diving, rapids, helicopter crane and technical rope rescue. This grant will provide the team with 25 mountain rescue kits, 15 new radios and new technology rescue ropes to improve the ability and efficiency of future rescues.
"Tahoe Fund's generous funding allows us to purchase light rescue equipment for our mountain rescue technicians and other equipment team members to achieve high levels of performance," said Hasty team member Sas Hadden.
"Let everyone in the team be equipped with the same equipment, which greatly helped us and made our technical rescue safer and more efficient. After serving the citizens of Northern Nevada and California for more than 50 years, Washoe The County Sheriff’s hasty team recently voted to be certified by the Mountain Rescue Association (MRA). This grant will significantly help the team in our upcoming MRA certification test, and ultimately, will help us maintain what the Hasty team expects High level of technical proficiency."
The various search and rescue teams throughout the Tahoe Basin have the same goals and often receive the same calls, especially during search and rescue operations during winter storms. These teams have begun regular training and cooperation, and are expanding their regional search and rescue methods.
Learn more about Tahoe Fund and the projects it supports on www.tahoefund.org.
Tahoe Fund is a non-profit organization established in 2010 to support environmental improvement projects to restore lake clarity, promote sustainable recreation, create healthier forests, improve transportation and stimulate greater management of the area. Through the generous support of donors, the Tahoe Foundation has spent more than US$3 million in private funds and obtained more than US$50 million in public funds for more than 60 environmental projects. These projects include new sections of the Lake Tahoe bike path, watershed restoration, aquatic invasive species removal, forest health projects, public beach improvement and management plans. Learn more on www.tahoefund.org.
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