Montrose Search and Rescue – Dog Rescues 2 Continuing with some other dog rescues performed by the Montrose Search and Rescue team, we look no further than Pickens Canyon in March 1991. Two young boys, best friends, were hiking the canyon at dusk. As often happens to young boys, they stayed out too long and […]
Montrose Search and Rescue – Dog Rescues Part 1 A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the Montrose Search and Rescue team locating and rescuing a lost dog in Brand Park. While the majority of the MSAR team’s efforts are focused on human rescues, they do honor the fact that many dog owners […]
Montrose Search and Rescue – Four Days in a Crashed Car Often the tales of survival by accident victims are as fascinating as the stories of their rescues. In 1984 a young woman miraculously survived for nearly four days after crashing her car. She was within earshot of the Angeles Crest Highway, and was only […]
Montrose Search and Rescue – Rescuing the Mayor’s Dog – and Monday Night, Meet the Team! The Montrose Search and Rescue team saves hundreds of lives, but their efforts are not “species-specific.” Besides humans, the team also rescues dogs that have, like their human counterparts, been outmatched by nature. The team averages about a […]
Montrose Search and Rescue – A Water Mine Tragedy I’m next going to cover a tragedy that took place in our valley relatively recently. Because of that, I’m going to leave out the names and locations surrounding the terrible event. I write about it now, not to bring up bad memories for the families […]
Montrose Search and Rescue – Mine Rescues Besides all the amazing rescue services the Montrose Search and Rescue team performs – finding lost hikers, snow rescues, wildfire rescues, cars and motorcycles off the mountain roads, and finding crashed airplanes – they also have a mine rescue team, currently the only full team in the state. […]
Montrose Search and Rescue – What’s It Like To Get Lost and Rescued? In a sharp contrast from our last traumatic and tragic story, here’s a story of a much less dramatic rescue that took place in the summer of 1990. Dan and Jane Rollins relayed the tale of Dan’s rescue by the MSAR after […]
Montrose Search and Rescue – Kid’s Hike to Mt. Lukens Turns Deadly, Part 1 On a warm and clear winter morning, Dec. 30, 1971, the neighborhood kids from the 3200 block of Henrietta Avenue decided to hike to Mt. Lukens to visit the freshly fallen snow. They had all done the hike many times before, […]
Montrose Search and Rescue – The Boy Who Missed the Bus In February 1958, 100 elementary school age inner-city kids from South Central LA boarded busses of the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) for a trip to the snow. For many of these kids, this would be their first time in the snow; for some their […]
Montrose Search and Rescue – Campers Saved By the Whistle On Wednesday, Jan 2, 1974, John Larson took his 3-year-old son John Junior on an adventure – a “cold-camping” excursion into the San Gabriel Mountains. Larson was an experienced outdoorsman with proper gear. He planned to camp on a trail a few miles out of […]