On Saturday, March 12, the Contra Costa Search and Rescue Team will be conducting training from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Marina and Downtown area of Martinez.
There will be no interruptions to business or traffic in the downtown area.
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It just amazes me that when something good is put on Claycord you don’t get many comments.
This sounds like a good news story to me.
How often is the team deployed? I assume they are not solely for CCC rescues. These are a great group of people, who volunteer their time (and resources) to prepare to help those in urgent need.
Yep … get the citizenry accustomed to seeing militarized lawmen roaming the streets of sleepy Contra Costa … sighhh
JoJo,
Sorry to disappoint you, but the CoCo team are not sworn deputies and do not carry weapons. Here are some old friends of mine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZE2JYgHqZk
Yes, they are carrying guns.
108RS
Did they find any integrity on the Board of Supervisors? If so, were they able to resuscitate it?
It’s been dead too long.
The only thing remaining is the bad smell.
I love this. Thank you so much for posting. Wish I was younger to do this. Is there anything seniors can help with?
I know one of the volunteers was 50 years old when she first started and has been involved for nearly 17 years. Some of the members are as young as eighteen and mature as the seventies. The Contra Costa SAR team has been involved in successful work throughout California as part of mutual aid and usually operates within the County. “Jojo” sees these volunteers as militarized lawmen, which shows that he doesn’t know anything about the concept of Search and Rescue. These are not wannabe cowboys but are citizens who give up many hours honing skills in medical assistance and search techniques for aid during disasters, for finding vulnerable people, including the lost and disabled. Todays practice was an example of the type of training that allows them to be ready for those emergencies. The hundreds of hours of yearly training still requires rigorous annual skills and physical fitness testing. This is all done as pure unpaid volunteer work.