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AIR SEARCH RESCUE
Who & What we do ©
Station 5-8-9
A Non-Profit Charitable Organization ©
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  Who we Are :  Air Search Rescue is organized exclusively for charitable, humanitarian, educational purposes, more specifically being a qualified Multi-Rescue  Disaster  and  Missing  persons organization  providing  life  saving  search,  rescue,  and recovery with involvement in law enforcement, fire rescue, emergency medical, and general services such as specially trained  canine search dogs,  underwater scuba recovery teams, ground  search  with  ATV's,  helicopters, airplanes, with no compensation for services render, all our non-paid Board of Directors and 100 + volunteer members provide around the clock emergency services.

Mission / Program :  Air Search Rescue  over the years within different states on many occasions  has provided  services  for the  FBI, U.S. Coast Guard,  U.S. Air Force,  State Police, County and City Homicide,  numerous law enforcement agencies, Bomb Squad, Fire Departments, and the former Governor Tom Ridge  during the flood of 1996  in Pittsburgh,  also provided  scuba  rescue  and  recovery  training  to  the  Allegheny County Sheriffs Deputies. Air Search Rescue is a back up  rescue and recovery organization  for confined and  overhead environment extractions  for the  Northeast Region of the United States.

Activities :  Air Search Rescue  is associated with the  Pennsylvania Search and Rescue Council,   Mon-Yough  fire  defense  council,  South Hills firemen's association,  International Critical Incident Stress Foundation,   Allegheny County  Emergency Management / Region 13 Disaster response team as County Station # 324, Allegheny County Sheriffs Department  (ERT) Emergency Response Team, and the Pennsylvania Sheriff's Associations, Pennsylvania  Amber        Alert Development and Services Inc. Children Safety Courses.

Air Search Rescue is an all volunteer organization from the chairman of the board to a new recruit.