SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR were requested to assist WCSO K9 units and WCSO Detectives with an evidence search relative to a recent homicide.

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR responded to Gerlach to conduct a search for an overdue subject driving an 18-wheeler cattle truck from Alturas to Soldier Meadows Ranch. Teams searched through a snowstorm during the night, then into the next day. Areas were checked all the way from Vya to Soldier Meadows Ranch. The subject was located during the afternoon on the second day of searching, walking along a desolate road, looking for help. He was transported back to staging in Gerlach with no medical needs.

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, and the SVU assisted DCSO and NDOW with searching for, locating, and recovering the second drowning victim from yesterday’s boating accident.

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, and the SVU were requested by Douglas County to assist in locating two subjects that drowned after a small boat capsized. Three subjects were in the boat, none wearing PFD’s. One subject survived by hanging on to the boat and was picked up by another fisherman. A second subject was recovered by Hasty Team divers. Teams will redeploy to the lake on Sunday with side-scan sonar to locate the third subject.

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR responded to an are east of D’Andrea to search for an ELT ping that was received by the DPS and the Air Force. The ping eventually quit, and nothing was located by ground teams.