King County Search Dogs

June 2005

June 4, 2005
05-1426
Ashford, Pierce Cty
0200 callout for missing female wanderer in Pierce County. We responded with four airscent teams, 6 personnel total. A 79 yo female became separated from her family around noon the previous day. Pierce Cty SAR had responded at 1600 hrs and had been searching all evening and all night. We were called in for the next operational period of the search. As our teams were deployed into the field, the subject was located by a GSSD team. She was presumed to have been moving most of the night. She was cold, but generally fine. (44 hrs)

June 11, 2005
05-1496
White Center
0930 start for planned evidence search for KCSO. We responded with two cadaver teams, 4 personnel total. We were called to search a house where a homicide had occurred. Nothing was located. (13 hrs)

June 18, 2005
05-ES-029
Cathlamet, Wahkiakum County
0900 start for planned cadaver/water search in Wahkiakum County. We responded with two cadaver and two water teams, 8 personnel total. The suspect in the June 11 search identified this area as where she dumped the body and container. Teams noted areas of interest but nothing was located. (118.5 hrs)

June 28, 2005
05-ES-032
Seattle
0700 callout for limited evidence search for SPD. We responded with two evidence teams, 3 personnel total. SPD requested our assistance in locating a knife thought to be used in a homicide in Seward Park, Seattle. The teams searched blackberry and other heavy vegetation along routes out of the park. Nothing was located. (16.5 hrs)

June 28, 2005
05-1658
Sloan Creek Campground, Mountain Loop Hwy, Snohomish County
1800 callout for two missing hikers outside of Darrington, Snohomish County. We responded with 7 personnel. The subjects were reported overdue. A Snohomish ground team located the subjects on a hillside in an area that had experienced a slide. The teams were found just after the first of our teams arrived in base. (39 hrs)

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