The New Mexico SAR council tries to keep an up-to-date list of teams throughout the state. Here is our map listing where the teams are in the state. Below we list the local Los Alamos Teams and contact info.

Los Alamos SAR Teams

  • Los Alamos Auxiliary Fire Brigade (https://laafb.org/)
    • LAAFB is an old, venerable group, organized in the 1950’s. It doesn’t fight fires anymore, but it is involved in SAR missions throughout the state and occasionally provides medical support for community events. On SAR missions, LAAFB is a dependable source of competent “Ground Pounders.” The team has a hybrid in-person/Zoom team meeting on the first Wednesday of each month, in-person at “the barn” (4017 Arkansas Ave, Los Alamos). The best ways to get involved are to attend a monthly meeting or set up a “pack check” with the SAR team leader to obtain your basic approval for participating in a mission.
  • Mountain Canine Corp (http://www.mc2sar.org/)
    • Mountain Canine Corp, or MC2, aka “M-C-squared,” is a group of dog owners and non-owner support people. Current makeup of the team includes Airscent and Human Remains (HR) dogs. (Airscent dogs have their nose in the air for live subjects; Trailing dogs have their nose on the ground for live subjects; HR dogs are trained specifically to identify the chemical unique to human corpses). To get involved, go to http://www.mc2sar.org/
  • Pajarito K9
    • Pajarito K9 is another local dog team, with dogs trained in Trailing, Airscent, and HR. To get involved, contact pajaritosar@gmail.com
  • Los Alamos Amateur Radio Club (https://laarc.weebly.com/)
    • The radio club also has a long, rich history. It has assisted with wildfire evacuations and is able to provide communications support for SAR missions.
  • Los Alamos Search and Rescue
    • LASAR is this team’s website; check out our About page. LASAR members are a motley collection of non-field responders that may not slot nicely into other existing teams like those above. This includes field coordinators, command staff members, incident base radio operators, computer mapping experts, etc. If hiking around out in the field is not your thing or if your strengths lie elsewhere, LASAR might be for you, drop us a line. Some people even maintain memberships with multiple local teams (if the team permits it) in order to maximize their SAR participation and community contribution.
    • (Please note that there is an existing “Los Alamos Search and Rescue” Facebook page that is not related to our non-profit organization.)

In addition to the teams listed above, some of the local pilots participate in the Civil Air Patrol and fly their planes out of Los Alamos in order to provide overhead communications support when needed.

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