Edwin Birch and his son are lost and SAR is called into action In July 2014 Suzanne, Keb and I were deployed on Mt Rainier to search for 64-year-old Edwin Birch and his son who had set out on a “key exchange” hike of the 18-mile segment of the Wonderland Trail between...
“Burned into my memory are the images of him, on that slick rock, grasping for something, anything, to hold on to, as he slid slowly but inevitably toward the edge. Worst of all is the memory of him looking back at me, desperate and helpless, as he soundlessly...
March 2020: The height of the Coronavirus Pandemic. In a small town in eastern Washington an “at risk” youth has been missing for two days. Search efforts have been fruitless and the weather is deteriorating. Local SAR authorities call the State Emergency Management...
April 2020: Guy Mansfield co-authored a paper under the auspices of the Washington State Planning Unit that was recently published in the Journal of Search and Rescue. The Washington State SAR Planning Unit was formed in 2018 to provide search planning resources...
