Butte County Sheriff’s Search & Rescue Applies for OHV Grant 2023
February 1st, 2023 – Chico, CA – The Butte County Sheriff’s Search & Rescue Team (BCSAR) is seeking public input for the California 2023 Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program application cycle for 2023. This grant has provided funds to BCSAR for purchasing equipment, gear and supplies to provide safety patrols and respond […]
2022 Year in Review
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Butte County Sheriff’s Search & Rescue Applies for OHV Grant
Our team responds to calls for service in both the Jonesville OHV and High Lakes OHV areas. We respond to searches for lost, missing, or stranded riders, accidents, and medical emergencies in these remote areas of the county. Jonesville and High lakes see various off-highway vehicle use in all seasons, and our team uses OHV […]
Butte County Sheriff’s Search & Rescue Needs Your Support During This Week of Giving
Week of Giving We are honored to announce that we are a part of the first annual Week of Giving hosted by the North Valley Community Foundation that begins today. This weeklong event is an exclusively online fundraising event open to all nonprofit public charities in Butte, Tehama, Colusa, and Glenn counties and charitable funds of […]
Butte County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Featured on National Television
Our team was recently featured on the Science Channel’s show Extreme Ice Machines. You can learn more and view the episode here. The episode, entitled “Goliath Below Zero,” follows our team as we use our Tucker Sno-Cat to perform a mock rescue in the Jonesville area. This episode is a good behind-the-scenes look into what our […]
Helicopter Ball Drop 2020 Recap
We had an amazing first annual helicopter ball drop! Thank you to all of our amazing sponsors as well as our host, Canyon Oaks Country Club. Please enjoy the recap video below and we hope to see you at the event next year. https://youtu.be/a7ADyou9svc
The Ten and Ten Exercise
The team recently completed a combined training that included our air and marine units. This is one of the most anticipated trainings of the year because it includes the Ten and Ten Exercise. The Ten and Ten involves deploying rescuers from the skids of a helicopter directly into water, and this occurs ten feet above […]
Proud to Give Golf Event 2020
As a completely donor funded, non-profit organization fundraising is extremely important to us and this year we have a new event happening on September 28th. The Proud to Give Golf Event is happening at Canyon Oaks Country Club and will feature a helicopter ball drop. The golf tournament has been postponed to 2021 due to […]
Butte County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Launches New Website
We are excited to launch an updated version of our website. We hope you will appreciate this updated look while enjoying some of the new features which include updated visuals, news posts (such as this one), an integrated contact form, and easier to find donate buttons. Our hope is this new version of buttesar.org will […]
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