How to activate the S.T.A.R.R. Team
Office number - (803) 955-7002
Nextel/Sprint Direct Connect number - 150*22*20687
Emergency number (803) 707-1955 - Director Steve Pearrow
Emergency Number (803) 606-1441 - Asst. Director Don Hale
Physical Address/Mailing Address
245 Martin Neese Road
Swansea. SC. 29160
There is no cost to the recipient for our services.
S.T.A.R.R. Team is a support team. We offer official agencies with trained man power, equipment and internally certified working canines that can assist in search efforts for the lost and the missing. S.T.A.R.R. will not respond to any scene
without an official agency's (federal, state, or local) request for our support. That agency will either need to be at the search area or have made prior contact with a representative of S.T.A.R.R. to say that they will not be on the scene and that we have permission to be on the scene, whether public or private property.
S.T.A.R.R. can respond within the state of South Carolina in a short period of time. We are available to respond in other states in the US.
S.T.A.R.R. can offer assistance in:
- Lost campers/hikers
- Missing children
- Alzheimer patients
- Criminal investigations
- Natural disasters
- Mass casualty events
- Evacuations
- Human Remains Detection (HRD)
- Confined space rescue/recovery
- Hurricane recovery
- Water search and recovery
- Cold case missing persons
The S.T.A.R.R. Team has tracking dogs that can assist in locating the lost. We can assist other agencies in k-9 tracking and Cadaver detection.
We have 800 radio capabilities with all South Carolina Mutual Aid frequencies. We also utilize UHF radio system for inner communication.
We also have:
- Mobile Communication/Command Center
- All terrain vehicles
- Specialized equipment trailer - this makes our team totally self-sufficient in a search or natural disaster.
- Boats - small and large that enable us to perform search and rescue/recovery in any type of water.
- Resources in assisting in Mass Casualty events.
- Resources and equipment for natural disaster assistance.
- Equipment, vehicles for evacuation assistance.
- Horses that are trained to assist us in search efforts - Equine Team
