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CASART Trailer gets facelift as outfit continues to grow

by Margie O’Hara, CASART Secretary

The Central Adirondack Search and Rescue Team, based in Inlet, continues to grow and to update equipment.

Since its organization in 2003, the team has now attracted nearly 90 members, primarily from the Adirondacks, Capitol Region, and Central New York.

This figure makes CASART the largest all-volunteer search and rescue team in the state.

It is also one of the best-trained groups, with the latest in high-tech equipment.

All of the training and equipment are paid for by individual members, grants, municipal support and donations.

CASART has a trailer which was donated several years ago and has been equipped with everything needed to be used as a mobile ICP (Incident Command Post), such as a computer, printer, mapping software, base and handset radios, individual GPS units, compasses, and extrication equipment.

Time and weather have taken a toll on the exterior of this indispensable search and rescue tool.

Recently, CASART member Mark Shantz, who runs a body repair shop, along with his wife Sandy, his father, and the shop employees, decided to undertake the task of giving the trailer a fresh exterior.  Continue reading →

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Busy weekend for Central Adirondack Search And Rescue Team by Roy Reehil, CASART President

CASART Training Officer Greg O'Hara debriefs the team at the conclusion of the mock search

The Central Adirondack Search and Rescue Team (CASART) conducted drills last Friday and Saturday, October 14 and 15 in Inlet.

The drills were followed by the organization’s annual meeting, elections, and dinner at Seventh Lake House on Saturday night.

The team is now the largest search and rescue team in the state with over 80 members, 19 of whom braved the rain, wind and cold to conduct a mock search exercise Saturday morning at Fern Park in Inlet.

Left to right: CASART President Roy Reehil, his son Ethan, and CASART member Joe Gelsomino, Ron Dearlove and Paul Repak

During the search, four teams of searchers divided up to comb the hillsides and valleys of the park to find myself and my 13-year-old son, Ethan.

After about two hours of searching, a radio message was received at the CASART trailer, which was set up as an incident command center, that both of us had been found and that we would walk out of the woods with the team of successful searchers. Continue reading →

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