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Organization Number: 25-1683217
Organization Name: Air Search Rescue
Address: 37 Werner Camp Road
Address:
City: Pittsburgh
State / Province: PA
Zip / Post Code: 15238-1423
Country: United States
Phone: 1-724-274-6477 Ext:
Fax: 1-724-274-6477
Organization Email: amberalert@juno.com
Website Address: http://www.airsearchrescue.org

Detailed Description: 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. What follows are short resumes on the principle corporate officers.



 

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