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Contributed by: Steve Shultz/YourHub.com on 7/16/2008

The Douglas County Search & Rescue Team (DCSAR) is hoping to attract more volunteers at a membership drive this month.

DCSAR will be holding an information meeting to recruit new team members at 7 p.m. July 22 at the Colorado State University Cooperative Extension building, 410 Fairgrounds Road at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Castle Rock.

Mike McCann, a forestry technician with the Metro District of Highlands Ranch, has been an active DCSAR member for about a year and a half.

"I just enjoy the outdoors and it's a good group of people," McCann said. "It's good to give back to the community and help in that way."

DCSAR is a nonprofit, all-volunteer group providing search and rescue, other emergency response and outdoor safety education to Douglas County residents.
According to President Bruce Fosdick, DCSAR, formed in fall 1998 by Douglas County Sheriff Steve Zotos, works in tandem with the sheriff's office, but is a separate entity.

Fosdick, of Castle Rock, has been involved in search and rescue in Colorado for 42 years.

McCann said about 1/3 of the calls DCSAR receives are missing children reports in the Highlands Ranch area. He said his latest venture was a July 10 search for a 17-year-old boy who went missing from the Griffith Centers for Children in Larkspur.

"It ended successfully," he said.

Fosdick said the teen was a "walk-away" from the center. He said the search and rescue team spent about four hours on the case after finally locating the teen in Castle Rock.

"He walked all the way to Castle Rock," Fosdick said. "Occasionally, some of them just walk away from there."

DCSAR members must live within 30 minutes of Douglas County, supply their own gear and uniforms, agree to respond to whatever emergency calls arise -- whenever they arise -- and turn in an application, which can be obtained at the July 22 meeting.

"A search or rescue mission can come at any time and last any amount of time," Fosdick said. "Members must commit to helping whenever the need arises."

For more information, visit the DCSAR Web site.

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