Mission Report by Paul Dickman Location: Rio Grande Gorge Mission: NMSPR2607192 The call went out for an early AM rescue of two kayakers stranded overnight downstream of the Rio Grande High Bridge, but in a known location. One had a history of a knee injury and may not be able to hike out. At the […]
Our brigands met for a classroom training on how to be an effective support for a canine search team. This training was done in conjunction with the local Pajarito K9 search team, whom provided valuable feedback as we discussed how being on a dog team is slightly different than a ground-pounding search team (which is
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Late afternoon of June 15, LAAFB gets a call for a far away search in the Gila Mountains, almost 6 hours away!!! A camper in the area had disappeared. When incidents across the state occur, ordering managers/incident commanders will typically call the closest teams first, and slowly expand outwards trying to get all the resources
Twice over memorial day weekend our brigands were called out on missions. The first came on Friday, May 22, around 1945, a hiker coming from low elevation had gotten up to Stewart Lake Area and began having severe symptoms of altitude sickness. This hiker was experienced, and knew what to do with elevation sickness (e.g.
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Evening is just getting on when our Brigands receive this call for an injured hiker in Jemez Springs. Four brigands respond with Da Mule, Romulus, and Remus moving ahead to incident base, at the parking lot of a bank in Jemez Springs and Bucky coming not too far behind. Earlier in the day, drones had
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A second mission materializes on the same day when a group of our brigands are already deployed on a first mission in the Pecos. Only a single brigand, Da Mule, is available for this second mission in the rural neighborhood around Brazos Falls. A wood gatherer had gone out from her home in the morning
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Mission Report by Chris Frankle Just after lunch on the 18th the brigade received a call to assist in evacuating a female subject with an ankle injury near Stewart Lake, having slipped on the icy creek while descending. Four members of the brigade responded. Naturally, given the location, the EMT and SAR teams from Santa
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A call for a walk-away dementia subject came near the end of the work-day. This happens to be one of the hardest times for our brigadiers to get out in the field. There’s so often that last meeting which is almost done, or that last report to get in, or last coding bug to squash
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Mission Report by Katie Mummah On Tuesday, March 24 an evening call came in for a hiker with an injured leg on a bluff south of Jemez Springs. Three of us Brigadiers responded in the first wave and two came in a slow response. We arrived at incident base to find a joint command. In
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Training Report by James Lee. Last night’s training at Pajarito Mountain included 6 brigadiers. Two were on snowshoes (personal) and the rest were on skis. We started from the parking lot towards the bottom of Mother lift and continued to the bottom of Breathless trail. We hiked up breathless to Road 0, followed road 0
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