On outdoors,
in reverse order.

SAR is 100% volunteer, self funded. Some say we should get paid and I’m a strong advocate of “no”. We serve because it’s the right thing to do and the purity of that service to sacrifice to bring others home will be tainted by the pursuit of compensation.

We had two recent call-outs, both fatalities due to heat stroke. Remember, heat stroke is not the same as dehydration. Heat exhaustion to heat stroke may be stoppable by extreme rapid cooling. This is the bodies inability to thermal regulate. It doesn't matter your hydration if your body cannot cool itself. If you find yourself in heat exhaustion, stop, find shade, cool off. If you vomit or experience a change in mental status, SOS immediately. This is emergent and life threatening.