The Snohomish County Volunteer Search and Rescue (SCVSAR) is a non-profit organization that typically has 500 volunteers on hand. But as we head into the organization’s busy season, it is down 60 people, which means added work on the present volunteers.
“There’s more missions and less volunteers,” Board President Mike Loney told KIRO Newsradio.
Why are volunteer numbers down?
“I don’t know specifically, other than this day and age there’s a lot of things that people can be into, and are interested in that compete for their attention. And the other reason is, we are bound by state laws about training that’s required by volunteers to be in search
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