DEEMI – Search and Rescue – The mission of DEEMI is to develop with ethics and integrity, systems that will save lives. Through education and training, and using Federal surplus military equipment, to encourage the spirit of volunteerism, and to facilitate the saving of lives in Maine and New England.

Welcome to Down East Emergency Medicine Institute (DEEMI). Thanks to our dozens of volunteers, we offer our services at no cost. Our goal is to improve Medevac techniques and Search and Rescue in the State of Maine and the New England region.

Search & Rescue via Drone

LATEST NEWS: April’s edition of Maine Seniors magazine features a well-done article titled Meet “Doc” Bowie, He and his team find lost people!.

Click HERE for article

We have a number of resources available to us through our section units. Read more about them via pull-down menus above, or these links: HMMWV (high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles ‘humvee’); Fixed Wing (aircraft), Rotary Wing (helicopter), UAV (drones) and IT/R&D.

For information regarding current, recent and past searches, see DEEMI’s Search and Rescue page HERE and for other Searches in ME, NH and VT being conducted by other dedicated agencies and organizations see HERE .

–> Watch our featured video, professionally produced by DJI to learn much more about DEEMI’s mission and the people we serve. -video link-

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Maine Survival – first in a two-part series about what to do if you find yourself lost while out in the Maine wilderness – (WABI TV 5)

What it’s like to be the first called when someone goes missing in Maine waters. (story of Maine Marine Patrol by Bangor Daily News)

Search & Rescue crews change tactics with the seasons (Maine Wardens, DEEMI — Fox22/ABC7)

Watch the FEATURED VIDEO below by DJI to learn more about

DEEMI’s mission and the people we serve.