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Showing posts with label Other Search. Show all posts

A Happy SAR Ending for the New Year

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Wikimedia Commons / CC I know it's been a while since I've written anything here, and the reasons are many, including the fact t...

SAR Ops: From Classroom to Call-Out

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  I had just received my Inland Search Management class certificate the day before, on Friday. At 4:15 a.m. Saturday, my phone beeped me...

SAR While I Was Away

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While I know our SAR coordinator and assistant coordinators have been plenty hard at work, in part with calls that ended up being resolved b...

Being a K-9 Backer -- A Search Near Wapatki

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View of the San Francisco Peaks from Wapatki National Monument The first call-out happened not long after I'd gone to bed. It was sl...

Searching for Justin

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With my left set of fingertips gripping a tiny, sharp ridge of (hopefully) embedded volcanic rock above me, my left foot perched on a smal...

Back in 30 Minutes Turns Into Back in 18 Hours

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She left her boyfriend's house at 9:30 in the morning, saying she was going for a short walk to "the point" and would be back ...

Missing at The Wave

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I'm leaning over the steering wheel, fighting the sleepies while my teammate snoozes in the passenger seat. (Looks like he's goi...

Searching for Those Who Don't Want to Be Found

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I could feel the sweat dripping down my neck and back and occasionally off the tip of my nose. It was late at night, but Oak Creek Canyon wa...

Search for Overdue Backpacker on the North Rim, Grand Canyon

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On Thursday, members of our Coconino County Search and Rescue team headed out to help the National Park Service with a search in the area of...

An All-Night Search in Sedona

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Seven of us from three merged ground-pounder teams lay on the cool rock with our packs under our heads, stargazing as we rested and waited. ...

What a Strange Mission

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Things changing on a dime during a SAR mission isn't anything unusual; situations are often dynamic, and we're accustomed to alterin...

Hunters Lost

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It's been a common theme lately with our call-outs: hunters lost or reported overdue. It's usually been late at night or duing the w...

Mountain Rescue Association Tests: One Down, Two To Go

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Our team has decided to apply for membership in the Mountain Rescue Association (MRA) . The MRA is made up of mountain rescue teams from aro...

A Walk In The Woods

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There's no news article link to give you for this one. I guess the ending didn't make it a newsworthy story. Still, a disabled teen ...

Communication Is Key

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Why does it often seem like family members don't communicate as well as strangers do? I don't mean to sound cranky. Besides, I enj...

Trusting My Gear and My Teammates

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Have I mentioned that I'm a bit afraid of heights? Well, make that afraid of "exposure" more like. Either way, being suspende...