This April, a team of instructors from the Canadian International Rescue Organisation led by Mr Marcel Schur, conducted a Search and Rescue Course in Gozo to Emergency Response Rescue Corps volunteers, as well as three volunteers from the St John Rescue Corps.

Founded in 2008, the Canadian International Rescue Organisation is a non-governmental organisation made up of a group of volunteers who respond globally to disasters to provide professional search and rescue services.

The course was spread over nine days, between the 10th and 18th of April, and included search and rescue topics including navigation methods, search patterns and techniques, type personal protective equipment suitable for searching, patient transportation methods, understanding different type of footprints and the preparations of a personal kit to sustain yourself during the search mission. It also included a night search, involving all participants of the course, searching over a large area of rough terrain for a lost person.

The Canadian team set a special session on the use of unmanned drones, which they usually use during searches. It covered the software, theory and practice on how to fly a drone. All the participants had the opportunity to fly the drone. Members from the Civil Protection Department attended for this particular session.

A certificate presentation was held last Saturday, This was followed by a presentation of mementos to all Canadian Instructors by the Emergency Response Rescue Corps.

The Emergency Response Rescue Corps said that it would like to thank Mr Marcel Schur and his instructors for their valuable work they did in the short time they spent in Malta.

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