Mission Report

The Brigaded ended 2023 and started 2024 with a series of hurry up then standdown missions. Mission 121 on November 18th 2023 was for an injured hunter near Hopewell Lake. Another team managed to bring the hunter out before Brigade teams arrived at IB. Mission 123 on November 29th found the Brigade mustering for an […]

At 2119 on the evening of Wednesday, November 15th, the brigade SAR team leader sent out a request for team members to participate in a search for an overdue day hiker in the Penasco area. This was clearly a potentially dangerous situation for the subject as the local temperature was expected to drop to 25F

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

At 0023 on the morning of Sunday, January 29th, the brigade SAR team leader sent out a request for team members to participate in the second operational period of a mission in the Arroyo Hondo area, reporting to incident base at 0900. A 75 year old male had been reported missing. With nighttime temperatures well