San Diego Mountain Rescue Team

San Diego Mountain Rescue Team
Founded 1968
Founder John Wehbring, Wes Reynolds and Will Tapp
Type Public Safety, Search and Rescue
Location
Origins 1967 Picacho del Diablo rescue[1]
Area served
 United States
Method Mountain Rescue, Rope Rescue, Avalanche Rescue
Volunteers
 72
Slogan A volunteer organization dedicated to saving lives through search, rescue, and mountain safety education.
Website sdmrt.org

The San Diego Mountain Rescue Team (SDMRT) is an all-volunteer organization located in San Diego County, CA operating under the jurisdiction of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. With approximately seventy active members, SDMRT responds to calls at any time to search for and rescue missing, injured or stranded persons in San Diego County and, through mutual-aid requests, to other counties within the state of California. SDMRT is a fully accredited member of the international Mountain Rescue Association[2] as well as an accredited Type I Mountain Search and Rescue Team.[3] SDMRT routinely works with the San Diego Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Bureau and San Diego's Aerial Support to Regional Enforcement Agencies (ASTREA) on operations within the county. On operations outside of San Diego County, SDMRT works under the particular Agency Having Jurisdiction for the region in question.

Team History

In February 1967, two Claremont College students set out to climb the 10,154 foot tall Picacho del Diablo, the highest mountain in Baja California. They did not return to school and were reported missing. After a week-long search by Los Angeles-area mountain rescue teams the couple was found severely debilitated, near death, and were rescued from the upper canyons of the mountain.[1] Individuals who participated in the Picacho del Diablo rescue were inspired to found the San Diego Mountain Rescue Team, and it was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in 1968.

Notable Operations

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dart O'Bryon, Elanor (1989). Coming Home from Devil Mountain. Tucson: Harbinger House. ISBN 978-0-943173-20-7.
  2. ↑ "MRA California Region Teams". Retrieved 21 April 2011.
  3. ↑ "FEMA Typed Resource Definitions" (PDF). Retrieved 21 April 2011.
  4. ↑ "Remains of hiker found". June 20, 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  5. ↑ "Hiker still missing in Anza-Borrego". April 11, 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
  6. ↑ "Mission Valley Rescue". July 7, 2011. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  7. ↑ "Julian Rescue". May 14, 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  8. ↑ "Santa Ysabel Mountain". March 27, 2011. Retrieved 21 April 2011.

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See also

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