Member Profile Feature

We would like to profile and recognise our member and one of our leaders

Profile of Jamie Shurr

ERT SAR MARINE UNIT | RESCUER | LEADER

Jamie Shurr has been an operational member of ERT SAR for over five years and is a leader and member of the ERTSAR Marine Unit. He is a Level III Rescue Tech and a SAR Tech I (ST I) and also on our D Squad.

Jamie has been instrumental in several "Operations." He has participated in Operation Bluebird Vanguard with the Royal Marines Commandos in the United Kingdom and Operation (Celtic) Griffin and Operation Milk Snake in Ontario with Peel Regional Police Marine Unit as well as the Bracebridge Floods 2019, Operation Inundatio (“Goldeneye”) with the Bracebridge Fire Department.  ​​

He is also two time recipient of the ERTSAR Marine Unit Challenge Coin and Award.

Jamie has also been a Firefighter almost 15 years and currently an active Firefighter and Acting Captain in Ontario, Canada.

He is a Rope Rescue Technician Instructor and qualified in Swiftwater Rescue and Ice Rescue to NFPA 1006 and also DEFRA Mod 3 and 4 Flood and Swiftwater Rescue.

​He is a qualified Powerboat Operator and and also has an RYA PB II Coastal Certification and a Member of our Marine Unit. 

Jamie Shurr (left) with Anson Place resident celebrating her 94th birthday, leaving her room after weeks of quarantine

During the COVID 19 disaster, he volunteered to deploy to one of the worst-hit high-density COVID 19 Long Term Care Home facilities caring for the elderly and vulnerable residents there. In doing so he had to live in isolation of his family and loved ones for weeks.  This has made an indelible mark in the needed response to this terrible pandemic in the community.  [Link below and HERE]​

Jamie is a practising Christian Pastor in Haldimand, Ontario and performed many special events and he has served on many missions around the world.  Jamie is married to his wife Melanie and is a doted father to his 5 children and is really proud to be an "Opa" to his 2 granddaughters.

Jamie has spent a lifetime dedicated to helping people in his community and all over the world and he continues to do so. It is our pride and honor to Profile our ERTSAR Member, Jamie Shurr.

Profile of a Member  |  SAR Chief Gary Foo  |  June 2020
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TAGS:

• Royal Marine Commandos
• Peel Regional Police Marine Unit
• Bracebridge Fire & Floods
• Niagara Regional Police Marine Uit
• COVID 19: Op Nightingale​ Anson Place LTC Home

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LINKS

• COVID 19: Jamie Shurr in Operation Nightingale​ Long Term Care Home

A few pictures with Jamie in ERT SAR