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 […]
Missing Long Distance Runner Mission 86 Abiquiu Lake Read More »
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 79 year old Alzheimer’s 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
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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
Cotton Kills – An experiment showing cotton has no place in winter Read More »
Unfortunately the manual isn’t complete. But here is a digitized version of what we have.
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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