Support Our Efforts
We greatly rely on your donations to help support our Search and Rescue efforts.
We greatly rely on your donations to help support our Search and Rescue efforts.
Welcome to the home page for the Montrose Search and Rescue Team. The Team is made up of dedicated volunteers that respond to calls 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Whether the call be for a lost or injured hiker, skier, or rock climber, the Montrose Search and Rescue Team is always ready to respond.
Type of operations include:
- extrication and evacuation of victims from a car which has gone over-the-side of a mountain road.
- recovery and evacuation of fallen rock climbers
- search for lost hikers or skiers
- evacuation of injured hikers, climbers and hunters
- location of downed aircraft
- rescues from mines, tunnels or underground utility vaults
- urban disasters including collapsed buildings and rescues from damaged structures
- swiftwater rescue during times of flooding
- body recoveries
Emergencies
Email and text is not a reliable method for communicating emergency needs. Senders cannot be certain every email or text has been transmitted by their server, nor that it has been received by the addressee, nor that it will be seen within the time expected or needed.
If you have an emergency call 911.