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Murhut Falls Tech Rescue

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.

Brinnon Aircraft Crash

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.