Park County Search and Rescue
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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…
Are you a caver? Then you can become a life-saver. Park County Sheriff’s Office Division of Search and Rescue is always looking for volunteers for their team, but in this case they are looking for people with a particular set of skills. Park County has several popular caves, which are often explored by recreational cavers.…
Park County Search and Rescue has been living up to its name this winter, but this past weekend was all about training. On the invitation of Park County Search and Rescue, instructors from Black Fox Institute, Inc lead an Ice Rescue Workshop over the weekend. The curriculum came from Rescue 3 International, one of the…
Another out-of-state winter enthusiast needed the help of Park County Search and Rescue. At 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday, February 12, 2020, the Park County Sheriff’s Office got the call of a snowmobile accident in the Beartooth Mountains just west of Beartooth Lake. Sandy Seright, age 69 of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho was snowmobiling with a group…
In the world of emergency response, you might not get the opportunity to say thank you. But thanks to Facebook, the Park County Sheriff’s Office got just that. This Monday, the Sheriff’s Office posted a summary of their evacuation of 42-year-old Richard Dvorak from the Broken Heart Ice Flow after he fell and broke several…
Park County Search and Rescue mobilized for a daring rescue this weekend. A climbing party of 10 was climbing Broken heart ice flow, about 38 miles down the South Fork, when 42-year-old Richard James Dvorak fell at least 30 feet during the Saturday morning climb. After a call was placed to the Sheriff’s 911 Communication…