Mission Report

Helping a stranded woman out of the Rio Grande Gorge

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

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

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

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

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