November 2023

At 2119 on the evening of Wednesday, November 15th, the brigade SAR team leader sent out a request for team members to participate in a search for an overdue day hiker in the Penasco area. This was clearly a potentially dangerous situation for the subject as the local temperature was expected to drop to 25F […]

At 11:49pm on Wednesday October 4th, LAAFB was called out for a lost day hiker in Carson National Forest near the Continental Divide Trail (CDT). This was our second such mission that. Four members of LAAFB were able to respond, including one who would serve as Incident Commander (IC) and another who would help operate