Coast Guard hosts SAR briefing

WHO: Coast Guard Sector Mobile and Mobile County Health Department

WHAT: South Alabama Rescue Search and Recovery

WHEN: Nov. 8, 2011; 5 p.m.

WHERE: Jon Archer Agricultural Center
1070 Schillinger Rd., N.
Mobile, AL 36608-5298

Capt. Don Rose and Lt. Amanda Henderson of Coast Guard Sector Mobile will focus on local search and rescue interagency efforts and cover lessons learned from the 2011 summer SAR season. In addition, there will be an overview of the USCG SAR software and a discussion covering carbon monoxide poisoning/hyperbaric oxygen treatments.

“This will be a good time for the Mobile area first responders to meet,” said Rose, sector commander for Sector Mobile. “This will be an opportunity for various local search and rescue partners to strategize and review in hopes of improving interagency cooperation.”

***Editor's Note: Media interested in attending the news briefing should be present 15 minutes prior to the start time. For more information, contact Ens. Torry James at 251-287-4842.

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