North Shore Rescue celebrates 50 years

Since North Shore Rescue was formedthere have been 2,500search operations with volunteers giving 200,000 hours of effort.

Many of themen and women that give up their free time to rescuestranded hikers, skiers, and snowboarders are second generation members of the team that first formed in 1965.

Team leaderMike Danksjoined as soon as he was 19 years old, following in his father's footsteps.

"He always took me out to training and it was always a big part of my life," Danks told CBC host Gloria Macarenko.

Danks, himself afather of three children, was unexpectedly thrust into taking overthe leadership of the organization after former leader and friend Tim Jones passed away suddenly in January 2014.

North Shore Rescue which has a strict policy of not charging people for the cost of their rescue is currently campaigning to raise $6 million indonations to the Tim Jones Legacy Fund.

It was the late Jones' goalto achieve stable funding for search and rescue in B.C.

In the video above Mike Dankstalks to Gloria Macarenko about the team and itsgoals for the future.