Sunday morning, June 12, at 5:20 am came the call from our leader (code name GearHead)… Search for a hiker, male, age 68, around Cerro Montoso, a peak about half between Taos and Tres Piedres, missing from early afternoon the day before. 8 Brigadiers answered that call on this hot and blistering day– actually 7 […]
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Around 1130 on Friday, February 25, Los Alamos Fire Brigade received the callout for Mission #17 less than 5 miles west of Chili, NM (North of Española). The search was for a subject, missing since Sunday, who’s rolled vehicle had been discovered the day before by State Police. Fire Brigade quickly responded with 10 team members
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Around midnight on September 27 the Fire Brigade received calls to search for a lost camper among the piñon forests and oil fields surrounding the Navajo reservoir. While not exactly close the incident’s location, Fire Brigade was among the first teams able to respond with two brigade members on the road by 1:00 am to start the
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On Tuesday the 26th of January, around 6:45 pm, LAAFB got the call once again to field a team for a search and rescue mission. The Incident Commander wanted a small team—2 winter-capable vehicles with 2 team members in each—to deploy quickly to a location approximately 5 miles up “31-mile road” from Española. Incidentally, this
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