Welcome to Pacific Northwest Search & Rescue

Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue (PNWSAR) is an all volunteer non-profit organization dedicated to providing Search and Rescue assistance for people who are lost or injured out of doors. Our organization exists to provide ground search teams and other types of assistance to the official agencies responsible for search and rescue activities in our region (By Oregon law, the county Sheriff).

Our specialty is ground search operations. We focus our training on the development and maintenance of outdoor navigation, search, patient evacuation and survival skills. We also have a certified mountain bike team to augment our ground searches when it's appropriate. All field operation team members will meet PNWSAR and Oregon State Sheriff’s Association basic search and rescue certification standards. We work primarily with the Clackamas County Sheriff Department’s search and rescue coordinators for training and testing to meet this statewide requirement. We also train to develop skills that will be utilized in command post and base camp functions during a SAR incident. All PNWSAR members are registered “Emergency Service Workers” with Clackamas County Emergency Management and Oregon Emergency Management.

We work very closely with other regional search and rescue organizations and belong to the Mt. Hood SAR Council. We also participate in joint training operations with other search and rescue groups. This prepares our teams to effectively participate in SAR missions that require high levels of cooperation and teamwork with the many diverse resource groups (i.e.: dog teams, snowmobiles, high angle rescue, medical teams, and other ground search teams).

We are always interested in meeting new volunteers who share our commitment to helping others through search and rescue.

Serving Clackamas County, Oregon and neighboring communities since 1993.