Franklin County, Arkansas · Volunteer SAR
Ready when the woods go quiet.
Franklin County Search & Rescue is a volunteer team that works under the Franklin County Office of Emergency Management to find the lost, support first responders, and bring people home from the Ozark hills, hollows, and waterways.
Why we serve
Our members love Franklin County, the outdoors, and the people who live and visit here. When someone is overdue on a trail, a hunter doesn’t come out of the woods, or a vehicle leaves the road in rough country, trained neighbors show up — at a moment’s notice.
We operate only under the direction of the Franklin County Office of Emergency Management. That chain of command keeps searches legal, coordinated, and safe.
Ground & wilderness search
Grid, hasty, and clue-aware search in the Ozark National Forest interface, river bottoms, and rural farmland.
Support to the Sheriff
Evidence search, scene support, and extra hands when the county needs organized volunteers in the field.
Training culture
NASAR-aligned fundamentals, land navigation, radio, first aid, and night operations. We train so we are useful when it counts.
Team notes
All updatesNew public site for Franklin County Search & Rescue
Franklin County Search & Rescue now has a Hugo-based public site: emergency guidance first, then who we are, how to join, and how to support the organization. The old Weebly page carried the core sentence we are keeping: we are 100% volunteer, we work under the Franklin County Office of Emergency Management.
Monthly training: night navigation on county ground
Template post: swap in the real date, rally point, and pack list. Night land-nav is the skill that separates “I like the woods” from “I can be given a segment and come back with a map that means something.
Note the 2026 ASARA State SAR Conference
The Arkansas Search and Rescue Association hosts statewide training and a conference each year. Members who can travel should treat ASARA as the professional calendar — not optional color.