search and rescue

(Hurricane, UT)  --  The Washington County Sheriff's Office says a 60-year-old man is in critical condition after falling from the JEM trail east of Hurricane.  The accident happened Monday morning and it took two hours to rescue the man.  Police say i...

UPDATE(Springdale, UT)  --  The search continues for an Arizona woman missing after flash flooding swept through Zion National Park in southern Utah.  The National Park Service says a rescue team is searching for Jetal Agnihotri of Tucson after she didn't return to her lodging Friday night.  Agnihotri wa...

(St. George, UT)  --  A 19-year-old mountain bike rider is hospitalized after a 60-foot fall at Zion National Park. He was riding off-road on the east side of the park in an area closed to bikes. He broke several bones in the fall. He was a...

UPDATE: The Mohave County Sheriff's Office says Beau Riddle was discovered dead in an area near where his vehicle was last seen along the Arizona Strip Tuesday morning Original Post (Littlefield, AZ) -- A Layton truck driver who called his employers to say he was having a mental crisis shortly after delivering equipment to a location in Littlefield, Mohave County is missing...

HURRICANE, Utah (ABC4/KDXU) – Washington County Search and Rescue volunteers can now accept payment after the county commission passed a new incentive called ‘pay per call’. “This idea started back in 2020 when we had 174 rescues,” says Sergeant Darrell Cashin of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. According to Cashin, that was a ...

The Washington County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue is now revealing details of a complicated multi-day search between two states after recovering the remains of a St. George man in a remote area east of Bloomington Friday afternoon. The rescue was set in motion last Wednesday afternoon when deputies with the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona received a call from a passerby on I-15 reporting

Search and rescue crews in Washington County are experiencing yet another uptick in calls for help, responding to seven calls in a span of six days. First responders say they’re hoping an increase in temperatures will eventually keep their volume of calls at bay, adding that the sustained high volume of rescues has burdened their 70 volunteers, who are continuing to regularly come out in a show of

It’s a race against the clock for Utah County Sheriff’s Office’s Search and Rescue team to find two teenagers who went missing at Utah Lake Wednesday night. According to Sgt. Spencer Cannon, family members called Saratoga Springs Police around 8 p.m. when 17-year-old So ...

Zion National Park’s Search and Rescue Crew responded to two separate Search and Rescue calls today, Thursday, March 26, 2020. The first was called in late in the afternoon on Wednesday, March 25, from an off trail scrambling route on the Watchman, a large monolith rising 2500 feet above the floor of Zion Canyon. ...

While health officials are encouraging the public to spend time outdoors in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, medical practitioners are asking that the public considers the risk of exposure to the virus and effectively practicing social distancing ...