Search & Rescue
Page the team, see who's available, track members in the field, and document every mission for grants and reimbursement. Resgrid is the callout and coordination platform built for volunteer SAR — wilderness, urban, K9, dive, and mounted units alike.
Free for up to 10 users & units • No contracts • Set up in about 15 minutes
Missions start with scattered volunteers, unknown availability, and a clock that's already running.
The sheriff calls the coordinator, who texts three group chats and starts phoning down a list. Thirty minutes later you still don't know if you have a dive team.
Rope, swiftwater, K9, medical, tracker — qualifications live in the coordinator's head or a stale spreadsheet, not where the callout decision happens.
Once teams deploy, base tracks them with radio check-ins and guesswork. Command can't see where members and vehicles actually are.
Hours, personnel, and mission details must be reconstructed from memory for FEMA reimbursement, county contracts, and grant applications.
From tone-out to demobilization, Resgrid handles the callout, the accountability, and the paperwork trail.
Launch a mission callout by push, SMS, email, and voice call at once. Members respond with availability and ETA — you know in minutes whether you can field the mission.
Track certifications and specialty qualifications per member — rope, swiftwater, K9, EMT, tracker. Dispatch by role to alert exactly the skill set the mission needs.
See responding and deployed members on a live map via the Responder app, and track vehicles with the Unit app or hardware GPS trackers through built-in Traccar support.
Timestamped notes with GPS, photos and file attachments, personnel logs, and full call records — exportable as PDF for the sheriff, FEMA, or your grant writer.
Schedule trainings with RSVP and attendance tracking. Membership hour requirements and team readiness stop being a end-of-year reconstruction project.
Open source and self-hostable — run Resgrid on your own server if your operating area or agency requires it, with full control of your data.
Most SAR teams coordinate life-safety missions with consumer apps and spreadsheets — or pay for modular platforms that charge per capability.
What you use today | Examples | Typical cost | Included in Resgrid |
|---|---|---|---|
Team management platform | D4H modules | $1,000–$3,000+ / yr | Personnel, missions & records in one |
Phone trees & group chats | Call-down lists, GroupMe, WhatsApp | Free, but slow & unaccountable | Multi-channel callouts with responses |
Availability polling | Doodle, text threads | 30+ min per callout | One-tap responding statuses & ETAs |
Qualification spreadsheets | Excel, Google Sheets | Stale the day after updating | Certifications with expirations & roles |
Vehicle GPS trackers | Consumer trackers, separate AVL | $15–$30 per vehicle / mo | Traccar hardware GPS + Unit app AVL |
Mission logs & hour tracking | Paper forms, after-the-fact emails | Hours per mission | Auto-timestamped logs & PDF export |
Typical spend: $1,500–$5,000 per year plus volunteer hours lost to coordination overhead. Resgrid's free tier covers small teams outright, and entity pricing stays grant-budget friendly as you grow.
In SAR the return isn't just money — it's minutes off every callout and documentation that funds next year's gear.
to a staffed callout, not half an hour
typical yearly tool consolidation
of missions documented automatically
to start on the free tier
Savings estimates based on typical published pricing for team management and tracking tools; results vary by team size and mission volume.