yakima county search and rescue

Participating in the reserve program and the special water response teams requires hundreds of volunteered hours.

There is a successful outcome in the search for a hunter who went missing near White Pass. The 49-year-old hunter had been missing with his horse since Saturday. Lance Chipman had left his base camp near White Pass. When he did not return, his friends reported him missing...

PRESS RELEASE… The Yakima County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a missing subject’s hunting partner stating that his friend had left camp at 10:00 a.m. Saturday morning and has not seen him since. The subject is a 49-year-old Cashmere resident who was riding on horseback...

Yakima County Search and Rescue found an injured hunter early Sunday morning. The man text messaged his wife late Saturday night and said he was lost. She called the Sheriff's office and rescue teams found him early Sunday Morning. The hunter injured his knee and had a serious case of hypothermia...

Cardiologist Peter Baciewicz, a 55-year-old doctor from Seattle who was lost on Mt. Adams, has been located in good condition by searchers from the Yakima County Search and Rescue unit.  Dr. Baciewicz was found at about 6 p.m. Tuesday near Morrison Creek, on the southwest side of the mountain...

He hasn't been identified but search crews from the Yakima County Search and Rescue unit are looking for a missing 55 year old Seattle doctor on Mount Adams. Sgt. George Town from the county sheriff's office says the doctor and a friend were hiking Sunday in an area of the mountain known as the lunch counter...

A 24-year-old man from Tacoma died in the Naches River Tuesday afternoon after entering the water at north 16th Avenue. Authorities say the man was with his brother and girlfriend when he decided to pull off the road and take a swim. He never returned to the vehicle and police were called...

A 26-year-old man was rescued May 13 after he was caught hanging on a cable over the Naches River. Yakima County Sheriff's deputies say member of the Yakima Search and Rescue Water Response Team along with members of the tech rescue team had to rig a pulley system and a rescue line to get to the man...

Shortly after 10 P.M. Sunday night the Yakima County Search & Rescue received notification of an over due snowmobiler. The first stage of the search started immediately where it was determined the subject’s vehicle was still parked at the Ahtanum Sno-Park west of Tampico. ...