At 06:15 on Friday June 4th our Team Leader sends out the text. The message is asking for volunteers for a mission in the Sandia Mountains for an overdue male subject starting at the La Luz trailhead. Arriving at Incident Base the five of us are teamed up with members from Albuquerque Mountain Rescue and […]
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May 15th 2021 our SAR Team Leader conducted a spring training session on line search and Probability of Detection (POD). POD is one of the variables in an equation to determine how well an area has been searched. The Probability of Success equals the probability the subject is in the area times the POD. POS
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May 22nd 2021 turned out to be a great day for the Jemez Mountain Trail Run. Storms stayed just to our east creating dramatic skies. Three members provided communications support via HAM radio at the Guaje Ridge, Pipeline and Mitchel Trailhead aid stations. Six Brigade members volunteered to provide medical support under the JMTR’s medical
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At zero dark thirty on May 13th 2021 eight members of the Brigade along with two members from Cibola SAR hit the trail from Jacks Creek campground. The mission will be one of the our more arduous missions. Our job is to support a team from Santa Fe that is about an hour ahead of
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The series of videos below demonstrate how to setup the Brigade Cascade Rescue Litter for use. Packaging a patient in the litter is not covered in these videos. Pour your favorite beverage, pop some popcorn and sit back for riveting entertainment. Ok, riveting is NOT a turn I would use… The primary advantage of the
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First off – many thanks to all those that supported our fundraiser for the litter! Our Search and Rescue Team Leader had been hoping for a “real” winter for a winter training session. Enough of a winter that members could test out their winter gear and we could move a patient on our new litter
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March 4th finds Taos Search and Rescue gearing up to rescue a male and his dog who had been out overnight and was floundering in the snow at 12,000 feet in the mountains above Taos New Mexico. Concerned the mission could require considerable effort, the Incident Commander requested additional resources from outside of Taos. Four
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As we start sliding into spring and more people venture out we see an uptick in missions. The March 3rd call from the Ordering Manager requested ground pounders for a missing person near Tres Piedras in Northern New Mexico. Eight members of the Brigade responded with an ETA of 9:30 a.m. at Incident Base. Upon
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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
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Mission 6 is similar to mission 149 in our previous post in that it involved a person going missing after abandoning their vehicle. January 18th our male subject decided to test out his new Jeep by driving up 31 mile road out of Espanola. Several miles in he slid off the road and became stuck.
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