The past 72 hour have been busy for the Central Okanagan Search and Rescue volunteers.

• On Sunday, COSAR was called out twice within minutes to assist in two different rescues.
  • The first was for an injured snowmobiler on Moore Mountain in Greystokes park. COSAR dispatched a helicopter medical team to treat and rescue the sledder.
  • Within minutes of that call, COSAR was called to assist BCEHS in retrieving an injured ATV rider in the Postil Lake area. As 10 members were responding, BCEHS stood us down as they were able to retrieve the subject themselves.
    
    
• On Monday night, COSAR was called by West Kelowna RCMP to assist a stranded motorist who had taken a rented Escalade and become stuck on the Esperon Forest Service Road near Bear Lake. As members were responding, we were stood down as the driver managed to get a tow truck to assist.
  
  
• Then early Tuesday morning, COSAR was called by RCMP to assist another stranded motorist who had gotten stuck on Oyama Lake Forest Service Road. Eight COSAR members responded and the driver was brought out. In spring COSAR tends to see an increase in call from unprepared motorists.
  
  

Search Manager Mike Day would like to remind drivers again that, even through the weather and roads are clear on the valley bottom, most of the Forest Service roads in the higher elevations still have enough snow on them to make travel difficult. Please make sure you are prepared in case you run into problems.

COSAR would also like to remind people that rescues are free. Call 911 for assistance and Search and Rescue teams will come and get you.