Project Lifesaver

Project Lifesaver is a vital service that RTAAF supports. We are excited to be sponsoring this community resource, along with the Rochester Police Department and the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office.  Applications for enrollment in Project Lifesaver can now be completed and submitted for approval by RTAAF and the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Rochester Police Department.

By forming a partnerships with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Rochester Police Department, RTAAF and Project Lifesaver deploys specially trained teams with the most reliable technology available to quickly locate and return wandering adults and children to their families and caregivers.

Project Lifesaver relies on proven radio technology and a specially trained search and rescue team of the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Rochester Police Department. Applicants who are enrolled in the Project Lifesaver program wear a personalized wristband that emits a unique tracking signal. When caregivers call 911 and state that the applicant is a member of the Project Lifesaver program and that the applicant is missing, a search and rescue team responds to the wanderer's last known area and starts searching with the mobile locater tracking system. Search times have been reduced from hours and days to minutes.