Welcome to Alpha Team (ATSAR)
Alpha Team K9 Search and Rescue, Inc., was formed to provide all of the skills and teamwork necessary to bring the best resources, K9’s and personnel to your Search and Rescue mission. We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization providing immediate call-out status to the southeast United States. Alpha Team is an advanced response team with the capabilities and willingness to respond to all types of search and rescue emergencies. Our teams can provide incident command, navigational support, radio operations, ground searchers, mantracking, and highly trained K9 search and rescue specialist teams for your urban, wilderness and water search operations. Our search ...
Alpha Team speaks at the Gwinnett Amateur Radio Society Meeting
Members of the Alpha Team K9 Search and Rescue (ATSAR) team spoke about their work at the April GARS meeting. Net manager Joel Barrett, W4JOL - who also works with ATSAR - invited the team to demonstrate its K9 capabilities. Pictured above are ATSAR members Cheryl Knieriemen, KI4SWA, document unit leader; Paul Ruszczyk, KI4ADT, team treasurer; Barney, K9, search and rescue dog; Paula Chambers, KI4LGR, team president; Stuart Samples, KG4PFQ, training coordinator; and Susie Braswell, K9SPB Public Liaison. Braswell, also a Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) member, presented slides of her work with DMAT in Haiti following the January earthquake. "The room ...
Fulton County Missing Alzheimer’s Victim Rescued (video)
October 30, 2009-Fulton County Missing Alzheimer's Victim Rescued: FULTON COUNTY, Ga. -- A south Fulton County Alzheimer’s patient spent Friday recovering at home after spending the night alone in the woods. Search and rescue volunteers found 70-year-old Gloria Hood just before 4 a.m. after she’d been missing for nearly 12 hours. Channel 2 Action News cameras captured crews taking Hood to the hospital after she spent the night in the woods. “It’s been hectic. It’s been draining. It’s been terrifying,” said her son, Brian Hood. Hood said his mother has never wandered off before. “She’s a sweetie,” he said. Police said Hood left her Reynolds ...
Douglas County Flood Victim Hooper Recovered
September 28, 2009-Douglas County Flood Victim Hooper Recovered: Article at CNN.Com
Alpha Team K9 Search and Rescue joins with the National Alzheimer’s Association
Alpha Team K9 Search and Rescue joins with the National Alzheimer's Association, GA Chapter, to increase awareness and to support fundraising efforts to end the disease. Click here to learn more about the National Alzheimer's Association! Georgia law enforcement officers now have one more reason to learn about Alzheimer’s ...
Alert Info
Alpha Team K9 Search and Rescue was formed to provide all of the skills and teamwork necessary to bring the best resources, K9s (air scent dogs) and personnel to search and rescue missions. We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization providing immediate call-out services to the southeastern United States.
Alpha Team is a highly capable, professional response team with the experience and willingness to respond to all types of search and rescue emergencies. Our teams can provide air scent and trailing dogs and handler teams, mantracking, incident command, navigational expertise, radio communications, ground searchers, and search and rescue specialist teams for your urban, wilderness and water search operations. Alpha Team K9 SAR (ATSAR) does not charge for its services and will respond at no cost for all types of search emergencies.
For emergency call-outs only, please contact:
Paula Chambers, ATSAR President
770-855-3633 (cell)
Click for additional team contact information
In The News
Welcome to Alpha Team (ATSAR)
Alpha Team K9 Search and Rescue, Inc., was formed to provide all of the skills and...
DeKalb County Search (video)
May 2, 2010 – Video of DeKalb County Alzheimer’s-like search: Read More →
ATSAR Featured in Hall County Magazine
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Events
ATSAR Supports National Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk
ATSAR Members participated in the National Alzheimer’s Associations Memory...
ATSAR Demo at Hemophilia of Georgia’s Camp Wannaklot
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Featured
Welcome to Alpha Team (ATSAR)
Alpha Team K9 Search and Rescue, Inc., was formed to provide all of the skills and teamwork necessary to bring the best resources, K9’s and personnel to your Search and Rescue mission. We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization providing immediate call-out status to the southeast United States. Alpha Team is an advanced response team with the capabilities... [Read more of this review]
Alpha Team speaks at the Gwinnett Amateur Radio Society Meeting
Members of the Alpha Team K9 Search and Rescue (ATSAR) team spoke about their work at the April GARS meeting. Net manager Joel Barrett, W4JOL – who also works with ATSAR – invited the team to demonstrate its K9 capabilities. Pictured above are ATSAR members Cheryl Knieriemen, KI4SWA, document unit leader; Paul Ruszczyk, KI4ADT, team treasurer;... [Read more of this review]
Fulton County Missing Alzheimer’s Victim Rescued (video)
October 30, 2009-Fulton County Missing Alzheimer’s Victim Rescued: FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — A south Fulton County Alzheimer’s patient spent Friday recovering at home after spending the night alone in the woods. Search and rescue volunteers found 70-year-old Gloria Hood just before 4 a.m. after she’d been missing for nearly 12 hours. Channel... [Read more of this review]
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