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Your daughter's case will probably also be used for decades to come in law-enforcement and SAR training. Normally, we don't include anything about the person's identity, but the details would immediately identify it to someone familiar with the case. To my knowledge, this was the largest AML...

I thought the story was reported pretty accurately. We always cringe with media coverage, but they clearly spent a lot of time on this and I didn't feel like there were any major problems with the facts. One note: We ALWAYS find our subjects on the last day of the search. Sometimes, we get...

Hi all, It's been a while since I checked in. I can say that everyone on Search & Rescue followed the trial very closely and nervously waited for the verdict. Fortunately, only one of our volunteers was called to testify as far as I know - the wonderful professionals at SBSD handled most of...

Thanks, and it is appreciated. SAR is kind of a quiet volunteer thing that usually operates in the background. It is satisfying to resolve a missing person search, even if it's not a great outcome, and it means a lot to the teams when get a little recognition. Even if most of our folks would...

I'm sill here, and the SBSAR folks are all watching the trial with great interest.

It looks like there's another hearing on calendar for Friday: 08/12/2016 Pretrial Judicial Officer Mazurek, J. David Hearing Time 8:30 AM

Thank you for the support! Doug definitely deserved that hard-won award. I'm the person from search & rescue that posted about our team a few months back when folks were asking. We are all of course anxiously waiting for justice. It seems painfully slow at times, and of course we haven't been...

Thank you for the kind words, Truthbeknown. The one good thing that came out of this prolonged search is that we were able to improve our team's response to mine stuff. We wrote a comprehnsive SOP for abandoned mine operations (the last manual we could find was written by China Lake in the late...

At this time last year, we were about halfway through our search. I think we had searched somewhere between 40 and 50 mines. Temperatures in 29 Palms were hovering between 100-110 degrees. The dog teams could only work for about 20 minutes at a time before needing a break in their vehicles...

To the person who sent the donation and the nice letter to our team this week: Thank you very much for thinking about us. It's been nearly a year since we received the callout, and we all still think about it, especially when it bubbles up in the news again at each court date. We were all...

My experience with the area is that a stock SUV with decent tires can get to 90% of the sites there if the driver is careful. That's what we did - drove in with Suburbans, Toyota Pickups and similar vehicles. Some of our searches required hiking, but nothing long. There were a couple of Jeeps...

FYI, it's the same article as the Desert Sun piece. That's the best account so far of what we did. http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2014/08/26/erin-corwin-cave-team-gold-mine/14626257/

<modsnip> I should add: We're generally allowed to speak about our team's activities and how we personally feel or are affected, but we have to refer all requests for facts or specific information to the Sheriff's PIO (Public Information Officer).

I'm happy to speak about SAR in general, how our team works and my feelings and such, but I don't have any "insider" information to share. Arclight

That depends on your vehicle and the time of year. Airing down your tires to 10-25psi will make the contact patch larger and will help you get through deep sand and other obstacles you might otherwise get stuck in. It's like having 1-2 sizes larger of tires for purposes of traction. It would...

For me, it was a sense of excitement and relief that it was over, followed quickly by sadness. Our initial clue was what what we saw reviewing the camera footage with LE. But it was hard to tell what we were looking at with the lighting/etc. Then we did a second camera mission, which raised...

It is possible to safely improvise harnesses, anchors and rappel devices. We did it several times on this search. For example, my team had several near-vertical shafts to search on the Saturday we made the find. Unfortunately, none were next to a road where we could anchor to the vehicle and...

Good question. For the most part, hard rock mines have fewer bad air problems than say coal mines. But they aren't being ventilated and you never know if there's been an historic fire or if there's rotting timber. So each team has a 4-gas monitor that checks the Oxygen level, CO (Carbon...

I'll do the best I can here. Are all the mines out there gold mines? They primarily mined Gold. There was also a large Iron mining operation farther South (Eagle Mountain) and other products like Silver and Copper were likely being produced as well. Those commodities may not have been present...

What they probably mean there is that the land is a patented mining claim. This has a specific legal definition, but it basically means that a mining claim was fiiled and productively worked for some years and the owners of the mine went through a procedure to gain permanent ownership of it...