Montrose Search and Rescue Team Recruiting Members

Are you an outdoorsy type who'd like to delve into emergency services?

The Montrose Search and Rescue Team is looking for a few rugged recruits.

 has announced its recruitment of men and women who'd like to train for wilderness emergency. The Montrose Search and Rescue team is a detail of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which requires academy training, EMT training and mountain rescue training.

The team is ready to respond to most mountainous emergencies, whether it is a lost or injured hiker, skier or rock climber. Members come from all walks of life but share a common bond: the sense of satisfaction felt when the team returns a lost hiker to their family, or provides necessary medical assistance to an injured biker, Sgt. Mark Slater wrote in a prepared statement.

Capt. Dave Silversparre added that the search and rescue team excels "in helping people in their time of need, whether searching a local community for a lost person or rescuing someone from a mountainous hillside.”

The event takes place at 7:30 p.m. Join us on March 28 at CV Station, 4554 Briggs Avenue, La Crescenta .