Coverage at this years rodeo was, fortunately, rather uneventful as reported by Tom Houlton. The rodeo occurs on both Saturday and Sunday for a handful of hours each day. You are either out in the hot sun or getting drenched with rain so hats off to those that cover the event. A cowboy had his […]
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Three Brigade members participated in this years Los Alamos Fair and Rodeo Parade. We entered the LaFrance, the GMC and our Rescue unit. All three made it to the parade, through the parade and back home. Getting to and from is not always a given with such old vehicles. Our 1921 LaFrance rolls by the
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August 5th we are back in the Pecos Wilderness. Given that the subjects left from Nambe Lake in a storm there was a good chance they missed the Windsor trail and continued down the Nambe Drainage. So, our mission, that included five members of the Brigade, was to hike up the Nambe Drainage from the
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As this was a nighttime mission I didn’t think to take any pictures. Around 19:30 on August 1st we received the call looking for ground pounders to search for a missing female mushroom hunter near Hopewell Lake. Four members of the Brigade headed out. Three to do ground search and one to run the show
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A little after 0600 on the morning of July 31st the brigade received a call to participate in a search for a pair of overdue hikers in the Windsor trail area. Four brigade members responded. Three ground-pounders gathered up their individual and team gear and headed out together. The fourth member is training to be
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Our July 28th mission was for a missing female hiker on the Manzanita Trail. The trailhead for this trail is off the road to the Taos Ski Valley. One Brigade person went as support for Mountain Canine Corp air scent dog and another Brigade person was working Incident Base. The mission was short as the
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From July 23rd through July 27th the Brigade assisted the New Mexico Emergency Management and the National Guard in searching for a person missing in flooding in Tecolote Canyon from the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon burn scar. Over those days five Brigade members at different times provided support for canine teams from Mountain Canine Corp, assisted
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A little before 1000 on July 19th the brigade was called to respond for a missing subject along the Rio Grande near Pilar. Six individuals from the Brigade formed the initial response, one as ordering manager, two filling support functions at incident base, and three ground pounders. A fourth ground pounder from the Brigade joined
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July 14th 05:38 the Incident Commander was looking for 4×4’s and ground teams to assist a lost hiker on the Continental Divide Trail north of Ghost Ranch. We actually had exact coordinates of the subjects location as she was able to make calls and was able to relay her coordinates. One of New Mexico SAR’s
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