Spartanburg County Search and Rescue (Scsar)

scsar begain in 2007 with a simple mission: help those who are lost. we are an all volunteer team who currently consist of 70+ members of which 50 are certified ground searchers, 5 are dog handlers (just began this in 11/2018, 1 napwda k9) and close to 20 make up our robust support unit. since our creation, we've been afforded the opportunity to assist with 70 searches and in the process, create relationships with those in the sar community. the bulk of of our sar responses have occurred in upstate sc, western nc, and central nc. we try not to be a team hindered by geographical boundaries. if there is a need for searchers, we'll do our best to help address that request for service. those requesting our services must be official public service agencies (leo, oem, etc). once requested, we can provide one, several, or all facets of support (ground, k9, drone, etc) based on the need of the requesting agency. in addition, we'll recommend our partnering agencies to those re