Park County Search and Rescue
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Dozens of volunteers and several aircraft from many agencies mobilized to find the two stranded snowmobilers, who were found alive after a three-day search. A call came into the Park County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Office on Thursday, Feb. 18: two snowmobilers – Trevor Wayne Deal, age 22 of Bridger, Montana, and Maison Deacon Ostwald, age…
The Park County Sheriff’s Office was busier in 2020 than in recent years past, but calls have significantly declined over the past 10 years. The Park County Sheriff’s Office has released their 2020 Annual Report. All of the year’s statistics for crime, calls, and achievements are outlined in the 29-page document. Park County Sheriff Scott…
Park County Search and Rescue’s first call of 2021 took the team to Cooke City to save a resilient and determined snowmobiler. The call came in at 1:10 p.m. on Friday. Jan. 8 – a snowmobile crash had occurred on Lulu Pass, north of Cooke City, MT. The victim was a 40-year-old Forest Service Law…
Park County Search and Rescue – at it again! The latest call to the county’s elite rescue team was received on Monday afternoon. At 2:30 p.m., the Park County Dispatch Center received a 9-1-1 call regarding Walter Zimbelman, a 61-year-old hunter from Fullerton, North Dakota. Zimbelman and two other individuals were hunting and successfully bagged…
The Park County Search and Rescue Team was at it again, as a helicopter was used for an overnight effort to save an injured hunter on the Shoshone Plateau. On Oct. 9, The Park County Sheriff’s Office Communications Division received an InReach SOS activation via International Emergency Response: a 38-year-old man had been hunting in…
Park County Search and Rescue embarked into Clark. Our illustrious SAR team responded to another call last Wednesday, this time in Clark. At 3:20 in the afternoon, the call came in to the Park County Sheriff’s Office Communication Center. 72-year-old Billings resident Christian Dietz had been riding an ATV on the Morrison Jeep Trail, a…
There’s a new headquarters from some of Park County’ finest responders. Saturday, August 1st, was the official dedication of Park County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue new building. The event was a celebration of the organization’s history as much as the future lives that will be saved thanks to this new facility. Originally started as…
Park County Search and Rescue answers the call, once again. At 1 pm last Saturday afternoon, the taskforce was called into action to rescue a a 65-year-old-female hiker, stranded approximately two miles north of the Beauty Lake Trailhead in the Beartooth Mountains. In an intriguing change of pace, this call didn’t come via 911 or…
A tragic end to a 3-day search. Yesterday morning, the body of 50-year-old Michael Alan Shotts was found in the Heart Mountain Canal, off Lane 17. An irrigation worker discovered the body around 9:46 am. Shotts was reported missing on the morning of May 3rd. He went to the Hayden Arch Bridge at 7:30 pm…
Everyone is asked to keep their eyes open for an overdue hiker. 50-year-old Michael Alan Shotts has not been seen after taking a short hiking excursion last weekend. According to the report received from the Park County Sheriff’s Office, Shotts was in the area of the Hayden Arch Bridge last Saturday, May 2nd around 7:30…