JCSO requested JSAR personnel for a search at Fort Worden. We responded this morning with five ground searchers, who worked closely with law-enforcement personnel from several agencies to search assigned areas around the last known position of the missing subject. The search was more resource-intensive than most, requiring air, sea and ground resources.
JSAR responded to the Lake Constance trail on Saturday, 7/21/19, for a reported injured hiker. NAS Whidbey Island SAR helicopter crew was requested due to the nature of injuries and condition of the trail. Olympic Mountain Rescue was requested for additional technical rescuers in case a carryout became necessary. NASWI SAR was able to insert two crew members, find the patient and hoist him while ground crews were still hiking up the trail.
JSAR responded to Ranger Hole on the Duckabush on the evening of Saturday, August 31, 2019, to assist Brinnon Fire with the carryout of a subject with a broken leg.
JSAR responded on the afternoon of Friday, August 23, 2019, to Murhut Falls to work with Brinnon Fire, JCSO, Olympic National Forest, Washington State Parks and Olympic Mountain Rescue personnel on the technical rescue of a fall patient near the falls. A high line was set up to move the littered patient across the creek to the trail, and from there the patient was transported via wheeled litter to the trailhead.
JSAR responded in the early hours of Wednesday, July 31, 2019, to the Eglon area of Kitsap County to assist Kitsap ESAR with the search for a missing person, who was located shortly after daybreak.
JSAR and JCSO were dispatched on the evening of Sunday, July 14, 2019, to Hoodsport to assist Mason SAR with the search for a missing adult. The subject was located while Jefferson County assets were still en route.
JSAR was called to assist JCSO and canine teams with the search for an adult missing overnight. The subject was found shortly after the morning search began.
JSAR was called to search for a missing child who had become separated from his group in the area of Lower Lena Lake. As JSAR arrived at the trailhead, other hikers reported he had been located near Upper Lena Lake and was being led down the trail.
JSAR assisted Mason County with a multi-day search for a subject who fell in the area of the High Steel Bridge on FR 2340.
JSAR responded to or towards searches in Mason County and Grays Harbor County and a recovery in the Coyle area over March 28, 29 and 30.
JSAR assisted JCSO with a grid search for evidence in the Port Hadlock area.
JSAR assisted Clallam County SAR with a search of areas of Miller State Park for a missing adult.
JSAR responded to the Sandy Shore Lake area to assist JCSO and Port Ludlow Fire with the finding of a hunter lost and trapped by the terrain.
JSAR and Quilcene Fire Rescue responded to the Tunnel Creek Trail to locate and carry out an injured hiker about 15 minutes up the trail.
JSAR assisted JCSO with the search for a subject in the area of the Dosewallips washout and later assisted canine teams with additional searching.
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.
