Alpine County Sheriff's Office was notified that a Kirkwood-area lodge guest had not returned to nor used her room for 3 nights. Subsequent investigation showed that the missing person report was in Alpine County but the "place last seen," her automobile, was parked at a trailhead, located in El Dorado County.
Alpine County and some El Dorado SAR personnel started a hasty search on 8-24-07, with full callout on Saturday 8-25-07, which consisted of deputies from Alpine, El Dorado, and Sacramento Counties; SAR members from Alpine, El Dorado(West Slope/Tahoe), Sacramento counties, Douglas County, NV and CARDA folks (search dog personnel) from the Bay Area.
The 69 year-old female embarked on a day trip on 8-21-07 after inquiring about local hiking and stating she was an experienced hiker.
Teams were deployed to assignments starting about 700am. About 90 minutes later, the CHP helicopter (H-20) spotted a subject, fitting the DMV description, in a drainage, west of Lake Margaret. CHP personnel landed and hiked to meet the subject, who was airlifted back to Command Post and to waiting Fire/Paramedic personnel. In the meantime, ground searchers (EMT/First Responders) were closing in on this area. Two different trailing dogs were following a scent trail, that might have led to the subject, who was medically stable, but taken to the hospital for further evaluation. Before her trip to the hospital, the subject gave a brief interview to Ron B.
This is a venue for El Dorado SAR members to provide fill-in information and first-hand accounts of specific previous searches. After SAR302 posts the first item about a recent search, any SAR member is invited to add their comments/observations/feelings/experience as it relates to said search. The postings are then edited and posted to the ESARC website (edsar.org) for public viewing.
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