Yearly Archives: 2013

Recent Searches – 7/5/13

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR responded to the Marlette area to search for five adults and one juvenile that were lost.  Cell phone pings put the subjects at the southeast corner of Marlette.  Teams accessed the area and located the subjects at that location.  The subjects were given water and some warm clothing and transported to staging at Spooner Lake.  The subject’s bikes were also transported out of the area.

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, and WCSAR responded to the summit of Mt. Rose to assist NLTFPD in locating and transporting an injured hiker to the trailhead.

Recent Searches – 7/2/13

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, and WCSAR assisted RFD in rescuing a stranded subject in the Truckee River near the west McCarran Bridge.  The subject had been caught in a thunderstorm and needed assistance to get out of the river safely.

Recent Searches – 7/1/13

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, and WCSAR assisted Sparks FD in locating two subjects that had disappeared in the Truckee River near the McCarran bridge.  Both subjects were recovered, but were pronounced dead after being transported to a local hospital.