Help support Explorer Search and Rescue (ESAR)! We are staffed by volunteers and funded by donations. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation, our EIN is: 43-1969389.
The ESAR program began in 1954 in King County, Washington, with a single Explorer post. At the time, search and rescue was still in its infancy in the United States. Many of the foundational SAR practices and tactics used today were developed by the early ESAR pioneers. Their legacy lives on in every mission we respond to.
Our volunteers—youth and adults alike—undergo extensive training to respond to a wide range of emergency situations. We are regularly called upon by federal, state, county, and city agencies to assist with missing person cases, wilderness rescues, natural disasters, and other critical incidents.
Whether hiking deep into the backcountry or assisting in urban searches, our mission remains the same:
To save lives and serve our community—so that others may live.
