King County Search Dogs

September and October 2000

Sept. 6, 2000
00-2290
SeaTac
1400 callout for an evidence search at Sea-Tac Airport: We responded with two cadaver dogs. Airport police had reports of a foul smell near vehicles in the parking garage. The teams searched around suspected vehicles and had no alerts. (15.5 hrs)

Sept 17-18, 2000
00-2392
North Bend
2000 callout for a missing 37 yo male camper along the Middle Fork Snoqualmie. We responded with one trailing and two airscent teams. The subject was reported missing after last being seen during camping trip with his wife at 0230 the previous morning. The trailing and airscent teams were not locating definitive trails or clues. The subject returned to camp ground at 0230 during the search with a questionable explanation of activities. The described activities did not correlate to the findings by the trailing and airscent teams. An airscent team in the area noted a car playing loud music stopping near the camp ground just prior to the subject appearing. (40.5 hrs)

Sept 23-24-2000
00-2439
Snoqualmie Pass
0830 callout for a missing 36 yo male backpacker near Upper Wildcat Lake, Snoqualmie. We responded with one trailing and four airscent teams. The subject was reported separated from his hiking party by a member of the party with a cell phone. The teams deployed from the trail head towards where the subject was last seen. As the teams reached neared the PLS, 4.5 miles in, the subject was located by a 4x4 unit along a road in an adjacent drainage at 1800 hrs. This was a good example of successful containment. Our teams bivouacked and returned to base the next morning. (322.5 hrs)

October 7, 2000
00-2572
Seattle
2200 callout for a missing 88 yo male Alzheimer's patient in an urban area. We responded with two trailing teams. The subject was located in a restaurant he had been to earlier in the day by local police. (11.5 hrs)

October 24, 2000
00-2724
Auburn
1700 callout for a missing 64 yo male, said to be Autistic-Paranoid-etc., in a rural area. We responded with three trailing and four airscent teams. While the airscent teams worked greenbelts and parks, the trailing teams followed a route that put them in the adjacent city. The subject was located the following day in Everett, over 50 miles from the residence. The caregivers had said the subject was not likely to talk to strangers, would not take a taxi or bus, and would not stray far from the residence. (94.5 hrs)

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