Monthly Archives: September 2018

9/22/2018 – Continued Search for Missing Subject

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR responded to the Tannenbaum Events Center to search areas in the vicinity for a missing subject whose car was located in the parking lot. She had been reported missing 9/19. Negative results.

9/21/2018 – Missing Subject

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, and RAVEN assisted WCSO detectives in searching an area around the Tannenbaum Event Center for a missing subject whose car was found in the parking lot. Negative results.

9/9/2018 – Lost Hiker

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, and WCSAR assisted Carson City and Douglas County in searching for a missing/lost subject in the Skunk Harbor area of Lake Tahoe. The subject had gone hiking the previous afternoon and was not heard from at a predetermined time. Ground teams searched the area into Saturday night before the mission was suspended. Teams were about to begin again early Sunday morning, but a Fallon Longhorn helicopter located the subject on the shore of Lake Tahoe and performed a hoist. The subject was taken to a landing zone where he was checked out by medical personnel.

9/8/2018 – Overdue Hiker

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, RAVEN, and WCSAR responded to the Mt. Rose Meadows area to search for an overdue female hiker on the TRT who failed to check in at a predetermined time. Douglas County requested Washoe County Search and Rescue’s assistance with this mission. A 4-person HASTY team was dispatched to the last know sighting of the individual and was able to make contact near the Diamond Peak Ski resort. The subject was OK and had sent the contact/check-in message but it failed to reach it’s destination, her mother.