Rio Grande Gorge Extraction – Mission 100
Helping a stranded woman out of the Rio Grande Gorge
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Stand Down
Stand Down Stand down. A not uncommon phrase heard by SAR teams often after having driven long distances in the middle of the night to reach incident base just to find out the subject has been found and you can return home. Members of the Los Alamos Fire Brigade Search and Rescue Team heard the
Medical Emergency Windsor Trail – Mission 88 Santa Fe Ski Basin
July 20th 10:15 p.m. For this mission the Brigade was called upon to be plan B. A hiker was experiencing a medical emergency about three and a half miles up the Windsor Trail in the Pecos Wilderness. The plan was to have the New Mexico Air National Guard hoist the hiker out of the wilderness
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Missing Long Distance Runner Mission 86 Abiquiu Lake
July 16th we were called to assist in searching for an overdue long distance trail runner who went for a run attempting to run around the lake. Once again we are leaving town at zero dark thirty. Our mission was to search the shore line from where a previous team left off. The terrain varied
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Missing Person – Mission 62 Santa Fe
May 23rd 0 dark thirty. Ok, actually 12:06 a.m. our SAR team leader sends out a text looking for ground pounders to assist in searching for a missing person south of Santa Fe. Four of us leave the Barn (CD-1) at 12:45 a.m. We arrive at incident base about an hour later just in time
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Cotton Kills – An experiment showing cotton has no place in winter
Any discussion about clothing for cold conditions will say cotton is a poor choice. A former member of the Brigade used to say, “you are better off naked in the cold and wet than wearing cotton.” I’ve often thought about the better off naked comment and wondered if there was a way to demonstrate it
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LaFrance Manual
Unfortunately the manual isn’t complete. But here is a digitized version of what we have.
Posting Guidelines:
1.) Be very respectful to the subject and family. Definitely no names and nothing beyond age, gender and generally what they were doing. For example, “we were called to search for an overdue hiker.”2.) If there was a death be generic about the location to keep “looky loos” from going to the subject’s location as
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