Author: Matt Stewart

JSAR and fire units responded to the Marmot Pass Trail to retrieve a juvenile hiker reported to be injured some miles up the trail. Crews located and extracted the subject by wheeled litter.

JSAR responded with JCSO, fire personnel and other SAR agencies to Marrowstone Island to search for a Project Lifesaver subscriber. The subject was located.

JSAR responded on Christmas morning to assist staff and law enforcement with the search for an adult missing from a care facility. The subject was located.

JSAR and East Jefferson Fire Rescue crews rescued a canine from bluffs in the Middlepoint area of Port Townsend.

JSAR and JCSO responded to Marrowstone Island to locate a child who had wandered. The child was located and returned home.

JSAR personnel assisted Mason County over the course of several days in October and November with the unresolved search for an adult missing in the area of the Putvin Trail.

JSAR, JCSO, Olympic Mountain Rescue, Brinnon Fire, Quilcene Fire Rescue, NAS Whidbey Island SAR and others responded late in the evening of September 29th to locate a downed aircraft with injured occupants in the Brinnon area. The aircraft was located by ground crews and one occupant rescued by air in an operation that continued into the following day.

JSAR assisted Olympic National Park, Clallam SAR and other agencies with a search in the Sol Duc River area.

JSAR responded to The Brothers to assist an injured climber. NAS Whidbey Island SAR was able to insert Olympic Mountain Rescue personnel high on the mountain to reach the climber more quickly while JSAR provided support lower on the mountain.

JSAR responded to Mt Walker on June 23rd, July 1st and July 6th to assist fire units with litter carryouts of injured hikers.

JSAR responded to the Mount Townsend Trail to assist fire units with the rescue of a hiker who had fallen. Passing hikers helped bring the subject to the trailhead as fire and SAR personnel moved up the trail to meet them.

JSAR responded toward the Mount Townsend Trails to search from Jefferson County’s side for a subject separated from his hiking partners on the Clallam County trails. The subject walked out a different trail and was located quickly.

JSAR and other SAR and law-enforcement units worked for three days on the ground search and to support a swiftwater search of the lower Duckabush River for a subject missing in the water.

JSAR responded to the Marmot Pass Trail to attempt to reach a subject reported to be having a medical emergency near the pass. NAS Whidbey Island SAR helicopter support was requested due to the urgency of the call and length of the trail. The helicopter crew located and treated the subject.

JSAR responded to assist with coordination of motorists stranded in the snow overnight near the Mount Townsend trailhead. Subjects were extracted by snowmobile.

JSAR, JCSO and fire agencies responded to the Coyle area on the evening of December 30th to search for an aircraft reported to have been lost from communication and radar in the area. WSDOT Aviation staff responded to assist with the electronic search for the aircraft’s distress beacon, and NAS Whidbey Island SAR and other air assets searched from the air. Joint efforts located the aircraft on morning of December 31st and recovered the occupants.

JSAR responded late on the night of August 24th to attempt to locate a SPOT beacon that had been activated around 8 miles up the Duckabush Trail. The initial hasty team located and evaluated the subject and arranged evacuation by NAS Whidbey Island SAR. Remaining JSAR crews provided support with gear shuttling along the length of the trail.

JSAR personnel performed a line search of the route to and trail around Upper Lena Lake for an overdue subject, who later hiked out another trailhead.