Category: MRA

(Re)search and rescue…the value of data

There are missions and then there are missions. The former often get planned over late night beers, or early morning coffees. You and your friends toss out lines you want to ski, routes you want to climb, partners you can sandbag, and days you can take off work. The latter get planned…well…whenever they choose. Often

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SAR Briefs and Updates

SAR Teams Assist Los Angeles Fires   The January fires in Los Angeles, particularly the Palisades and Eaton fires, had huge impacts on local Mountain Rescue Teams in the area. Altadena Mountain Rescue, Malibu Search and Rescue and Sierra Madre Search and Rescue all dealt with fires in their immediate area, and some had members’

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MRA President Testifies at OSHA Hearing

Mountain Rescue Association President Mark Miraglia testified yesterday that a proposed Emergency Response rule from the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration would put unnecessary and burdensome requirements on SAR teams and recommended that OSHA remove wilderness technical search and rescue from the rule. Miraglia spoke at a hearing for stakeholders to provide

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Help Convert Past Meridian Editions

THANK YOU for your interest in helping us convert past Meridian editions to be posted in online format. Here’s how to do so: By helping convert past content, you will help the Meridian in the following ways: Converting all past editions is too big a job for a single person to accomplish, so thank you

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NEW ARTICLE INSTRUCTIONS + TEMPLATE

To create a new post (article), you’ll do five things in the WordPress post editing screen, and three things in the Elementor editing screen. Edit this page in Elementor so you can copy the layout template to paste into your new post. On the WordPress edit page: Then Save draft (or Publish) then click “Edit

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