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Read about SAR in Iceland

Nov
02

A great article about our comrades-in-arms in Iceland:
New Yorker "Life is Rescues"

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YSCO Rescue Volunteers continue to Risk their lives to Save Others

Sep
15

YCSO cannot thank enough the search and rescue volunteers who continually provide live saving solutions to anyone who has needed help in the many wilderness rescues over the last few weeks. It is hoped the ongoing publicity regarding incidents like these will cause those intending on venturing into the wilderness to PLAN, PREPARE, and avoid exceeding your abilities/experience. Below are just 2 examples from many recent rescues.

BELL ROCK RESCUE -

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Jerold Joseph Williams Found Deceased

Aug
11

Jacob Lake, Arizona –The body of missing 5 year old Jerold Joseph Williams was found on August 10, 2015 around 4:30 pm by a group of volunteer searchers from Colorado City. The group was driving along Forest Service Road 240 when some boys who were in the back of the pickup saw the body of Jerold on the ground around 15-20 feet off the road. Jerold’s body was found approximately 3.7 miles point-to-point from the place Jerold was last seen. However, by road it was approximately 8.6 miles from the place he was last seen.

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Missing girl found safe: Emergency personnel, volunteers comb national forest for 17 hours

Jun
06

Scott Orr

The Daily Courier

PRESCOTT- A 14-year-old girl who was reported missing at Lynx Lake Thursday evening, June 4, spent the night in the surrounding national forest before she was found unharmed Friday at about 1 p.m.

Kadence Swift was camping with her adoptive family, who had come to the Prescott area from Phoenix on Tuesday. She was last seen Thursday playing on some rocks along the south shore of the lake. When her mother could not find her after two hours of looking, she called the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office.

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YCSRT's wilderness/hiking safety outreach underway

Apr
23

 

Special to the Courier

The wonderful volunteers from the Yavapai County Search and Rescue Team, whose membership has been instrumental in the success of so many rescue operations, have embarked on a community outreach campaign. 

The focus of this educational program involves wilderness safety and the critical components necessary to survive if lost or stranded. Much of the target audience will be youth throughout Yavapai County as part of the "Hug a tree... and Survive" program which is a nationally recognized wilderness safety course. 

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Hiker Dies after Fall

Mar
13

PRELIMINARY INFORMATION - Just before 6 PM on March 11, 2015, YCSO deputies were dispatched to an incident involving an injured hiker located 5 miles up from the Bull Pen camping area along West Clear Creek, east of Camp Verde in Yavapai County. The subject has been identified as 22-year-old Rhishav Choudhury whose home country is India. Initial reports from those who knew Rhishav indicated he had wandered away by himself from a group and apparently fell an estimated 100’ from a rocky area adjacent to a trail. The group consisted of students from a college in Ohio.

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Hug-a-tree Program

Mar
09

Yavapai County Search and Rescue Team

P.O. Box 11104, Prescott, Arizona 86304
A 501(c)(3) Non-profit volunteer based organization

www.ycsrt.org

Survival Education Programs

WHAT DO A WHISTLE, REFLECTOR AND A GARBAGE BAG HAVE IN COMMON?

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Hiker lucky she wasn’t alone; YCSO often called to rescue

Feb
22

By JOANNA DODDER

The Daily Courier jdodder@prescottaz.com

While a group of local young adults made several crucial errors during their trek into the Granite Dells Feb. 15, they did do at least one major thing right: they didn't go alone. If the 16-year-old girl who was saved by her friends would have been alone, she would have been in a world of hurt when she collapsed apparently because of dehydration.

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Man Rescued following Ground and Air Effort while Uninvolved Person hinders the work of Rescuers

Feb
18

On February 15, 2015, just after 1 PM, YCSO deputies were called out to the Thunder Mountain Trail on Capitol Butte in Sedona regarding a 66-year-old man from Idaho who was stuck on a ledge. The man had hiked to the top of Capitol Butte and upon descent he took the wrong trail which led him to an area where he could no longer descend, in part, because of a prior shoulder injury. The man was calm during his contact with deputies and remained stationary as requested.

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Poor Decision by Hikers Result in Rescue on Bell Rock

Feb
12

On February 8, 2015, at approximately 7:30PM, YCSO received a call regarding 2 subjects, a 46-yearold male and a 39-year-old female, both from Los Angeles, who were stuck near the top of Bell Rock in the Village of Oak Creek.

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