12/19/2017 – Stranded Vehicle

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR responded to a staging location at the south end of Winnemucca Dry Lake Bed and SR447 to search for a subject that called 911 for help. He had been off-roading, and became stuck. Cell phone coordinates put him northwest of the Nightengale area, north of Coyote Canyon. Teams were provided coordinates from a cell phone ping. When teams arrived in the area, the subject was spotted due to his flashing a flashlight. Searchers needed to backtrack a bit and access his area on a different road. The subject was a bit cold since he had walked about 1/2 mile to a ridge so that he could get better cell phone reception, but no other medical problems were reported. The subject was transported back to staging and given a ride home by SAR Staff.