Search One Rescue Team, a 501 (c)3 organization, is an over 40 year old Search and Rescue team, that searches for and helps locate lost or missing persons with an all volunteer human team assisted by their personally owned, and highly trained K9's (Canines-Dogs). We are based in the Dallas / Ft. Worth area and serves all agencies in this North Texas Region. Search One Rescue Team uses specially trained K9 teams to assist official governmental agencies (only) such as Fire Departments, Sheriff's Offices and Police Departments by searching for and locating lost or missing persons. These persons include, but are not limited to, victims of child abduction, Alzheimer's patients, suicidal persons, walk-a-ways, victims of disaster and more. When search and rescue operations are initiated, the search itself is an emergency and time is of the essence. In 2023 the Search One Rescue Team were requested to assist governmental agencies in the North Texas region on over 104 mission requests. This was the third year in a row with triple digit call rates averaging nearly 10 calls per month in a region with a population of over 7 million people.
The team has been successful in obtaining much of the equipment needed to accomplish its mission but struggles to obtain annual operating funds. Insurance for our mobile command center and off road vehicle is very expensive. In addition, maintenance and repairs for the command center and the need for replenishment of routine supplies is also very costly each year. In addition, we have fees associated with our paging system, our mission management software, our WiFi and router services, and dozens of other ancillary expenses that we must meet every year. Having the funds needed to cover these operating expenses contributes directly to the increased capacity and continued success of the Search One Rescue Team as more governmental agencies, and the people of
The Search One Rescue Team, a 501 (c)3 organization, is a K9 search and rescue team based in Lewisville, Texas and we generally serve the greater North Texas Region.
The mission of Search One Rescue Team is to assist official governmental agencies in locating lost or missing persons using our specially trained K9s/dogs with their handlers teams. We feature all volunteer teams/personnel. Our teams train weekly both locally and nationally and are subject to the strictest of national and local certifications, testing and tests to have them certified mission ready. All our services to official agencies are no charge/free.
The team has been successful in obtaining much of the equipment needed to accomplish its mission, but struggles to obtain annual operating funds. Insurance for our mobile command center, drone's, and off road vehicle is very expensive. In addition, maintenance and repairs for the command center and the need for replenishment of routine supplies is also very costly each year. Also, the team has fees associated with our paging system, our mission management software, our WiFi and router services, and dozens of other ancillary expenses that we must meet every year. Having the funds needed to cover these operating expenses contributes directly to the increased capacity and continued success of the Search One Rescue Team as more governmental agencies, and the people of this area.
Search One Rescue Team Services are entirely free services to our local official Governmental Agencies. SORT's services & mission are free from bias or favoritism. We are fair and impartial in the execution of our services with each and every official governmental agency.
Organization name
Search One Rescue Team
other names
SORT
Causes
Social Services
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Wise, Tarrant, Somervell, Rockwall, Parker, Palo Pinto, Navarro, Montague, Kaufman, Johnson, Hunt, Hood, Grayson, Fannin, Erath, Ellis, Denton, Dallas, Cooke, Collin
Address
122 Sunset Circle