7/11/20 – Smoke Creek Desert Stranded Subject

SAR Staff, RAVEN, and the SVU responded to a staging location at Warriors Bay to locate a stranded subject on the east side of the Smoke Creek Desert. The subject was spotted by a passing freight train during the night, stopped, and gave the subject some food and water. He had been stuck and out of gas for three days. The train was not allowed to transport him, but he was told to stay at that location so that the railroad could report where he was to law enforcement. As teams were almost to the subject, another train came across him and transported him to a location where SAR could pick him up and transport him to staging. He was checked by medical personnel, then taken back to the vehicle. SAR staff and some SVU members extricated the vehicle, supplied him with gas, and he went on his way to Gerlach.