Alex Josephson

4:00 pm February 3, a perfect time for a mission as brigadiers are just wrapping up work, a call comes. A hiker on Big Tesuque has got stuck waist-deep in snow and can’t get out! Despite having a mission the night before/morning of, 4 brigadiers still race to assemble and set out to meet with […]

Date: February 2, 2026 Location: Well Outside Ojo Caliente Mission: NMSPR2601337-OP1 The call came in at 21:55: an elder with dementia had walked away from her home. With temperatures hovering in the low 20s and her GPS tracker battery dead, every minute was critical. However, even the best teams face friction. Due to a coordinate entry error, our

Date: January 21, 2026  Location: NW of Las Vegas, NM (FR 156) The call came in at the dark hour of 5:18 AM. A woman, out hunting for firewood the previous evening with her group, had become separated while attempting to head back to her vehicle with her dog. Due to a series of unfortunate events waylaying

Windsor Trail near Tesuque VillageNovember 13, 2025, 1:26 a.m. The call came in just after 1:00 a.m.: an elderly local hiker, underprepared for the night, lost somewhere along the Windsor Trail. November may have been running warm, but it was still November. The subject carried water, but no food, and only a light jacket. At

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

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

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

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