CANADIAN AVALANCHE RESCUE DOG ASSOCIATION CALL OUT PROTOCOL Effective December 1997 Handlers in the Whistler, British Columbia area are now all equipped with pagers. In the event of a Code Alpha*, page any of the following four numbers and we will contact the remaining CARDA handlers, and between us, organize a response. Validated Dog Handler/Teams: Area Code (604) NAME HOME WORK PAGER Ian Bunbury 932-4127 905-2324 905-7380 Anton Horvath 932-1110 905-2324 905-7386 Yvonne Thornton 932-5196 905-2324 905-7387 Jan Tindle 932-5196 905-2324 905-7382 Dary Hemmons 932-5311 938-7602 905-7383 Craig Ross 938-9118 938-7602 Bruce Watt 932-6269 932-2300 Bruce Brink 979-4050 Richard Wyne 938-1795 938-7602 905-7385 * For a Code Alpha (Emergency) Page - Dial a Pager #, leave your contact phone# and add 9999 at the end to indicate that it is a Code Alpha Page, e.g. 123 4567 9999 The responding handler will in turn call an appropriate avalanche dog team(s), avalanche forcaster and/or control personnel as requested by the SAR manager. Note: Horvath, Tindle, Thornton and Bunbury are all available on pagers 24 hours a day. Once contacted any one of the four will initiate a fan-out call to additional dog handlers, avalanche control personnel and avalanche forecasters as required. - Jan and Anton also work as avalanche forecasters and are trained to evaluate snow stability. - Horvath, Thornton, Bunbury are also certified in general profile work (SAR calls other than avalanche) NAME PAGER HOME WORK Bruce Brink 979-4050 932-5196 (Whistler) 905-2324 (President) 739-9625 (Vancouver) Jan Tindall (Secretary/Treasurer) 905-7382 932-5196 905-2324 Canadian Avalanche Rescue Dog Association Box 294 Whistler B.C. Canada V0N 1B0 Bus. Phone 1-604-979-4050 Email: sardog@axionet.com ---------------------------