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 […]
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Every quarter the Brigade holds a large training session, or mock search, where we attempt to duplicate the conditions of a real mission. Quarterly gives us the opportunity to practice in all four seasons. For our summer training the callout text came in at 19:09 September 30th 2023 requesting members to report to Incident Base
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At 8:20pm on Monday October 2nd, an Incident Commander (IC) who is also an LAAFB member called one of our SAR Team Leaders to initiate a small-team response for a lost hiker. Earlier on Monday, a day hiker became separated from their group deep in the Carson National Forest north of El Rito, NM. Fortunately,
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At 2304 in the evening of Wednesday, September 20th, the brigade SAR team leader sent out a request for team members to participate in a search for a missing person in the Tierra Amarilla area, reporting to incident base at 0200 Thursday morning. Two experienced members of the brigade responded as ground pounders, departing at
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Around 10:30 pm on August 12, LAAFB received a mission starting at first light the next day searching for missing backpackers in the Pecos Wilderness. Under LAAFB’s own Griffyndor as IC, Da Mule and Accelerated Trekking headed out with three new brigade members hitting their very first mission!!! The morning briefing at incident base explained that a group
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At 1247 on Friday, July 28th, a call went out to the Brigade for a team to assist in extraction of an injured hiker in the Windsor trail area. The subject had two companions with him and there was cellular service at their location so the team had a very clear picture of the situation
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The Brigade was called out on the evening of May 13th for a missing hiker at a trailhead near our home base in Los Alamos. Eight Brigade members responded, including one who served as Incident Commander for this mission and another who helped run incident base throughout the mission. Team 1, a hasty team of
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On May 20th a handful of Brigade members helped out with the Jemez Mountain Trail Run. For those that don’t know the run consists of three courses – a 15 mile, 50 kilometer and 50 mile run through the mountains around Los Alamos. Obviously, a grueling race. Some of us provided communications support via HAM
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Mission 23 started early afternoon on March 25 2023 when we were called to help search for a missing person in the Abiquiu area. Ten Brigade members including our Incident Commander responded. We had just arrived at Incident Base when we learned the subject had been found in good shape by an incoming canine team
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At 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, February 26th the text message arrived saying ground pounders were needed for a missing backcountry skier and an extraction was a possibility. Ten of us arrived at incident base and learned that the subject’s friend and our subject had been snowboarding together when they decided to take different runs and
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