Our July 28th mission was for a missing female hiker on the Manzanita Trail. The trailhead for this trail is off the road to the Taos Ski Valley. One Brigade person went as support for Mountain Canine Corp air scent dog and another Brigade person was working Incident Base. The mission was short as the […]
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From July 23rd through July 27th the Brigade assisted the New Mexico Emergency Management and the National Guard in searching for a person missing in flooding in Tecolote Canyon from the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon burn scar. Over those days five Brigade members at different times provided support for canine teams from Mountain Canine Corp, assisted
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A little before 1000 on July 19th the brigade was called to respond for a missing subject along the Rio Grande near Pilar. Six individuals from the Brigade formed the initial response, one as ordering manager, two filling support functions at incident base, and three ground pounders. A fourth ground pounder from the Brigade joined
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July 14th 05:38 the Incident Commander was looking for 4×4’s and ground teams to assist a lost hiker on the Continental Divide Trail north of Ghost Ranch. We actually had exact coordinates of the subjects location as she was able to make calls and was able to relay her coordinates. One of New Mexico SAR’s
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July 4th found a few Brigade members and their family driving our 1921 LaFrance and our Rescue in the Los Alamos YMCA sponsored children’s parade. The parade consisted of kids of all ages on foot, bicycle, strollers, etc. going from the YMCA to the Elephant at Ashley Pond. At the pond there was hotdogs, watermelon
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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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May 26 2022 around 8:30 in the morning our local Incident Commander calls asking for a couple of 4×4 teams to retrieve a woman stranded in a stuck vehicle outside Tres Piedras. She had cell phone service and from her cell phone and OnStar we had her exact coordinates. So easy – just send in
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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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February 19th 2022 finds 13 Brigade members and trainees in the mountains practicing winter Search and Rescue skills. As you can see the weather is glorious! Our SAR Team Leader planned a fantastic mock search scenario. To start, we exercise our callout system with a text message to the team. The text says we have
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It’s winter, it’s cold and there’s new snow on the ground. What’s a SAR team to do? How about a night climb up our local ski hill – Pajarito Mountain at 10,420 feet! Perfect way to check out new snowshoes and other gear as well as practice cooking dinner in the snow and generally staying
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