Call out last night would have been a recovery had they not rescued themselves.
We get called to an occupied vehicle in the river. Normally no big deal, right, except it is 65 miles into National Forest on dirt logging roads. Several drunken kids cant keep the car on the road and decide to drive into a fast moving deep section of river.
Someone was on their shoulder and allowed them to get to shore. I dont know how many were in the vehicle but one was to many. I was told that one doesnt live very far from me, like on the same street.
Before we get very far we get canceled. So now we have to go look for a kegger with dozens of drunken monkeys acting stupid. Four of us, a traffic unit, Sgt., patrolman and I looked for 7 hours and found nothing but some evidence where several keggers had been. They must have figured we were going to be up after the accident and split.
So 176 miles of national forest later I surface empty handed as did the other three. The bad part is radio communications is very poor back there. Talk when you can because it doesnt happen often. The western edge of the Rockies are not the best for communication other than smoke signals.
This year just make up for two quiet years.
Gary D.
We get called to an occupied vehicle in the river. Normally no big deal, right, except it is 65 miles into National Forest on dirt logging roads. Several drunken kids cant keep the car on the road and decide to drive into a fast moving deep section of river.
Someone was on their shoulder and allowed them to get to shore. I dont know how many were in the vehicle but one was to many. I was told that one doesnt live very far from me, like on the same street.
Before we get very far we get canceled. So now we have to go look for a kegger with dozens of drunken monkeys acting stupid. Four of us, a traffic unit, Sgt., patrolman and I looked for 7 hours and found nothing but some evidence where several keggers had been. They must have figured we were going to be up after the accident and split.
So 176 miles of national forest later I surface empty handed as did the other three. The bad part is radio communications is very poor back there. Talk when you can because it doesnt happen often. The western edge of the Rockies are not the best for communication other than smoke signals.
This year just make up for two quiet years.
Gary D.