2008 DCSAR Callouts

Date	Location	Type	Summary	DCSAR Members Responding
1/1/08	Sedalia	S	82 YO man was missing from home in a rural area. The man was located OK by residents about a half mile away. The team was alerted about 30 minutes before sunset with temperatures in the mid-20s.	23 enroute or at staging
1/6/08	Clear Creek County	S	Assist to Alpine Rescue Team. Two overdue male hikers at St. Mary's Glacier. The hikers made it out on their own, OK. They had become disoriented in white-out conditions and hiked out the wrong direction. The two came to a road where they flagged down a motorist. This was a CSRB mutual aid call involving several other teams.	3 enroute
1/10/08	Highlands Ranch	S	14 YO girl missing after school. Found OK at home during coordinator briefing.	None
1/29/08	Summit County	S	Assist to Summit County Rescue Group. Search for three overdue snowmobilers. Two were located in fair condition but they said the third had died. He was found a couple of days later. This was a CSRB mutual aid call involving several other teams.	3 canceled enroute
1/30/08	Highlands Ranch	S	Missing 3 YO. Found OK during coordinator briefing.	None
2/2/08	Rampart Range	R	Recovery of a deceased man from the Pike National Forest.	10
2/3/08	Highlands Ranch	S	Despondent adult woman left home in the early morning hours, dressed only in pajamas, not wearing any footwear. Temperature was in the teens. Located OK by deputies while the team was enroute.	5 enroute
2/9/08	Summit County	S	Assist to Summit County Rescue Group. 23 YO man missing after leaving a bar in Breckenridge during a snowstorm. This was a CSRB mutual aid call involving 7 other SAR teams. Search was suspended by authorities. He was located deceased, in late April, after the snow melted.	2
2/10/08	Clear Creek County	S	Assist to Alpine Rescue Team. Four snowmobilers were missing in the Jones Pass area. They were located cold but OK. This was a CSRB mutual aid call involving 4 other SAR teams.	2 with snowmobiles
2/13/08	Highlands Ranch	S	9 YO girl didn't come home after school. Located OK at a friend's house during team mobilization.	None
2/14/07	Parker	S	Assist to Parker PD. 16 YO girl with her one year old daughter left home on foot during a snowstorm but neither was dressed for the conditions. Parker PD located the pair OK, indoors, and canceled DCSAR during staging.	10 enroute or at staging
2/20/08	Highlands Ranch	S	7 YO girl missing from home. Located OK during coordinator briefing. She thought her family was playing hide and seek with her. She came out of hiding when the first DCSO deputy arrived at the house.	None
2/20/08	Highlands Ranch	S	27 YO woman ran from a mental health facility. She was hiding on facility grounds until she saw her husband's vehicle, which she got in. He returned her safely to the facility.	17
2/25/08	Highlands Ranch	S	67 YO man, possibly with Alzheimer's, left home after an argument, on his bicycle, after dark. After additional investigation, DCSO classified this as a missing person case and canceled DCSAR. Subject was found OK at a motel.	None
3/3/08	Rampart Range	S	Caretaker at an unoccupied youth camp reported strange beeping sounds coming from the forest. There was concern that it might be some sort of personal alarm. During a search of the property in waist deep snow, nothing was found or heard. As the team was preparing to leave, the sound, rather loud, started coming from the area just searched. Consensus of opinion on-scene and afterwards with others was that it was some sort of animal, probably owls. Assisted by the camp caretaker and a DCSO deputy on-scene, with US Forest Service and Colorado Division of Wildlife personnel by phone.	5
3/11/08	Lone Tree	S	Assist to Lone Tree PD. About 1:30 AM, in 20 degree weather, a 29 YO woman, with her 4 YO daughter, ran from Skyridge Hospital after the mother was taken there for evaluation. In running, the mother lost her shoes. The pair was last seen by hospital personnel running through a construction site. They were located at the mother's boyfriend's house in Castle Rock and were returned to the hospital. Assisted by Lone Tree PD and Castle Rock PD	12
3/15/08	Southern Douglas County	S	A horse with broken reins and other damaged tack returned riderless to its barn, near county open space and other riding trails. Just as the search was starting, a 14 YO girl came walking down the road, OK, and asked searchers if they had seen her horse. She had ridden it to a friend's house from where the horse had broken free. The girl and horse were reunited. Assisted by Douglas County park rangers and Larkspur FD personnel.	17
3/15/08	Rampart Range	R	Just after the horseback rider search ended, the team responded to a report of an ATV accident near mile marker 8 on Rampart Range Road. Teams on ATVs and snowmobiles were deployed. They met up with a sheriff's deputy and FD personnel already on-scene. An adult woman had been thrown from an ATV and was complaining of neck and back pain. FD transported the patient by ATV to an Air Life helicopter which flew her to the hospital. Participating were Air Life, a DCSO deputy and West Douglas FD.	19
3/28/08	Highlands Ranch	S	After an argument, a 31 YO woman, not dressed for the weather, jumped from a second story balcony, in the dark, and ran towards open space. Several hours later she used an emergency call box at a closed light-rail station, about 5 air-miles from where she was last seen. She asked the operator to call her husband. DCSAR personnel with the husband notified DCSO deputies. The woman was taken to a hospital for evaluation. Assisted by DCSO deputies and the Regional Transportation District (RTD) operator.	15
3/28/08	Roxborough Park	S	Missing 7 YO. Found OK during coordinator briefing.	None
4/2/08	Highlands Ranch	S	Missing 4 YO. Found OK during coordinator briefing.	None
4/14/08	Highlands Ranch	S	Teenage girl missing from Rock Canyon High School. Found OK during coordinator briefing.	None
4/21/08	Highlands Ranch	S	2 YO wandered away from home. Found OK during coordinator briefing.	None
5/5/08	Castlewood Canyon SP	S	17 YO male reported by cell phone that he was lost and injured somewhere in the park, after dark. He made contact with his parents by phone several times during the night. After daybreak, he decided he was OK, could hike out on his own and there was no need for a search. The search continued and he was found OK, hiking out from the new eastern section of the park. Also participating were 6 members and a dog team from Arapahoe Rescue Patrol, a DCSO sergeant, 2 dog teams from El Paso County SAR and 2 state park rangers.	20
5/8/08	Parker	S	Assist to Parker PD. Despondent 15 YO male left home in the early evening after taking a large quantity of pills and alcohol. He was last seen near Cherry Creek. He was located several miles north of home and transported to a hospital for evaluation. Also participating were a Castle Rock PD dog team and Parker PD.	19
5/11/08	Highlands Ranch	S	DCSO deputy located a bicycle with training wheels off a trail near some ponds. During staging, several hikers and bicyclists on the trail stated that the bike had been there for "a while." Search was canceled by DCSO.	13 enroute or at staging
5/14/08	Rampart Range	S	Assist to Civil Air Patrol (CAP). A Colorado State Patrol aircraft tracked an aircraft Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) signal to an area between Palmer Lake and Cheesman Reservoir. CAP and El Paso County SAR were activated since the signal originally appeared to coming from El Paso County. As the signal was tracked north, DCSAR was activated. The CAP aircraft tracked the signal to Rocky Mountain Metro Airport (BJC) in Jefferson County. The ELT was located in an airplane in a hangar by a CAP ground team.	17
5/16/08	Highlands Ranch	S	Missing 7 YO boy. Found OK during coordinator briefing.	None
5/19/08	Parker	S	Missing 5 YO girl. Found OK during coordinator briefing.	None
6/13/08	Highlands Ranch	S	23 YO male ran from home after a domestic argument. He had been drinking and was bleeding from a cut from a broken window. He called home several times to say he was in open space. Eventually a deputy talked him in to returning home, which he did. He was taken to a hospital for evaluation.	12
6/24/08	Highlands Ranch	S	15 YO girl was 2 hours overdue from a morning trail run. Located OK as the team was responding.	4 enroute

ATV = All terrain vehicle CSRB= Colorado Search and Rescue Board DCSO = Douglas County Sheriff's Office FD = Fire Department MRA = Mountain Rescue Association PD= Police Department SO = Sheriff's Office SP = State Park USFS= US Forest Service YO = years old

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