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On Monday, September 20, 2004, a Cessna 206 with five people
on-board crashed in the Great Bear Wilderness in Northwest
Montana.
Two days later, two survivors of the crash walked out of the
wilderness. It was one of those amazing human interest stories
that immediately captured the attention of the national media.
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Animated
suspension
Posted: Saturday, Sep 23, 2006 - 11:51:54 pm MDT
By CHERY SABOL
The Daily Inter Lake
Local rescue crews practice high-wire act
Cliff and ravine rescues in Flathead County are rare, but when
they happen, crews need immediate expertise.
An intensive, weeklong course provided that for
search-and-rescue volunteers and rangers in Glacier National
Park.
“We don’t have a lot of high-angle rescue calls, but they’re
complicated,” said sheriff’s deputy Tom Snyder, coordinator for
search-and-rescue services in the county. “When you have one,
it’s too late to figure it out then.”
“Rigging for Rescue” was the course taught by Mike Gibbs of
Ouray, Colo. It is advanced training for rescuers who may wind
up hanging from a rope, plucking an injured mountaineer from a
cliff or crevasse.
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Anatomy of a crime scene
Posted: Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 08:53:40 pm PDT
By KRISTI ALBERTSON
Special to
the Inter Lake
“That’s got to be a grave.”
Stuart Smith, member of the Flathead County sheriff’s posse, pointed to
a patch of ground as a group of people clustered around him.
“How do you know?” Kathy Taylor asked.
Smith knelt and gestured to an area that had been marked with flags less
than an hour earlier.
“The sod’s been cut,” he said, pointing out near-perfect lines where the
roots of the grass had been sliced.
Taylor, forensic anthropologist with the King County Medical Examiner’s
Office in Washington, nodded, then asked the group what to do next.
Someone suggested simply lifting the sod off, like a crumbly, grassy
lid, but Taylor stopped them.
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Cold water
claims Canadian man
Posted: Wednesday, Apr 12, 2006 -
12:41:09 pm PDT
By RICHARD HANNERS
Whitefish Pilot
A Canadian man is missing and
presumed drowned in Whitefish Lake after the canoe he was in
tipped over on Friday, April 7, and the man attempted to swim
the 200-plus yards to shore.
The man was identified on Monday by Flathead County undersheriff
and coroner Mike Meehan as Seamus Brandan Daley, 26, of
Lethbridge, Alberta.
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Bachelor party ends in tragedy
Posted:
Tuesday, April 12, 2006
Written by Tracy Eastman
Interviews by Mike Potter
Whitefish Free Press
A time of celebration turned to tragedy when a canoe overturned
in 37-degree water on the north side of Whitefish
Lake near Les Mason Park Friday afternoon. Nine friends
had gathered at a house on the lake for a bachelor party. Shortly
after they arrived, two of the men made a fatal decision to go
out on the lake. When their canoe capsized, two friends on shore used wind surfing boards to
attempt to rescue the men in
the water. Only one of the men
could be saved.
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Tsunami of ice,
snow buries three: Event left bowl below looking like bomb
crater
Posted: Tuesday, Jan
17, 2006 - 08:46:31 am PST
By CHERY SABOL
The Daily
Inter Lake
An avalanche that swept down Red Meadow Peak on Saturday
afternoon was so powerful it blew water and fish out of Red
Meadow Lake below. It killed two of three snowmobilers who were
buried in it.
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Avalanche victims' bodies found:
Snowmobilers from Kalispell caught
Saturday in snowslide
Posted:
Sunday, Jan 15, 2006 - 11:04:33 pm
By JOHN STANG
The Daily
Inter Lake
Search teams recovered the bodies Sunday afternoon of two
snowmobilers killed by a Saturday avalanche on the north side of Red
Meadow Lake.
The pair were
Danelle Bloom, 22, and Christopher Schmalz, 21, both of Kalispell, said
Flathead County Undersheriff Mike Meehan. The causes of their deaths
were undetermined Sunday.
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Canine help for
searches
Posted: Wednesday, Jan 04,
2006 - 11:45:55 pm PST
By DAVE REESE
Special to
the Inter Lake
Dogs play critical rescue role. Libby team helped in hurricane
aftermath
The piles of rubble left in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
were a long way from the mountains of Northwest Montana.
But for Terry Crooks and his search dogs, the task at hand was
no different: finding people.
Crooks, from Libby, and his black Labrador search dog spent two
weeks in Louisiana, trying to find and recover people buried
under the mountains of debris.
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seeks a different sort of sunken treasures
Posted: Sunday, Oct 23,
2005 - 11:19:34 am PDT
By CHERY SABOL
The Daily
Inter Lake
A The dive team of the Flathead County Sheriff's Office has surfaced
as a vital part of criminal investigations and recovery of accident
victims.
Formed two years ago as a combination of independent divers and
those from Flathead and North Valley search and rescue groups, the
group functions now under the authority of the sheriff's office,
according to deputy Jordan White, the team commander.
It is sobering business, searching area lakes and rivers for
drowning victims and property hidden beneath the water.
"We are treasure hunters like every other diver," White said. "But
the treasures we find aren't ours to keep."
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 Hot
on the trail
Posted:
Thursday, Oct 13, 2005 - 08:26:03 am PDT
By CHERY SABOL
The Daily
Inter Lake
A team of expert tracker trainers is in the valley this week,
working with local law enforcement officers and search-and-rescue
members. On Wednesday, they were to work on a staged murder near
Columbia Falls. Instead, some members wound up going to the Glacier
Mountain Shadows-Western Inn to use their skills in a real
investigation.
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Bigfork bank robbed
Posted: Saturday, Aug 20, 2005 - 10:03:36 am PDT
By CHERY SABOL
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A man who robbed Rocky Mountain
Bank in Bigfork on Friday morning was disguised in a wig and
fake facial hair, and was reportedly intoxicated.
The Flathead County Sheriff's Office took a call at about 9:45
a.m. about an alarm at the bank.
A teller said the man pulled back his jacket to reveal the butt
of a semi-automatic pistol in his waistband, according to
sheriff's detective Cmdr. Bruce Parish. The robber told her to
stay calm, said he had a gun and demanded money. A teller gave
him several thousand dollars, and the man walked out the back
door of the bank.
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Fugitive still
on the run
Posted: Saturday, Aug 13, 2005 - 10:51:32 am PDT
By CHERY SABOL
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second day of a manhunt for a fugitive in Flathead Valley ended
Friday evening without the capture officials were hoping for.
Officers weren't too far behind Michael Marvin Dugan, 44, as he
reportedly traveled in the area of Whitefish Stage Road and
Montana 40, even persuading one resident to let him use her
phone Friday.
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Still missing:
Search ends for swimmer in Flathead River
Posted:
Friday, Jul 22, 2005
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Searchers trying to determine what happened to a man who
disappeared in the Flathead River Sunday conducted an experiment
Thursday that was a graphic demonstration of the water's power.
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Swimmer
presumed dead
Posted:
Tuesday, Jul 19, 2005 - 08:30:23 am PDT
By CHERY SABOL
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A search for a 21-year-old Kalispell man who apparently drowned
in the South Fork of the Flathead River has
been unsuccessful.
A search for a 21-year-old Kalispell man who apparently drowned
in the South Fork of the Flathead River has been unsuccessful.
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Divers recover remains of long lost teen
Thursday May
19, 2005
By PAUL PETERS
Whitefish Pilot |
Chandler Melton / Whitefish Pilot Scott Almos, left,
looks at the glasses of his brother, Dave Almos, whose
remains were pulled from Whitefish Lake on Sunday. Dave
Almos, who was 14 at the time of his disappearance, had
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For 30 years, Scott Almos
has been haunted by dreams that his brother, Dave, would
knock on his door and tell him where he has been since
he went missing in 1972.
That knock came last week, when Scott heard about a sock
containing human foot bones was snagged by a fisherman
at Mackinaw Point in Whitefish Lake.
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Stubbs
honored for 30 Years of Rescues
Tuesday
March 29, 2005
By CANDACE CHASE
The Daily Inter Lake |
SHIRLEY STUBBS, affectionately known as "Mother
Superior" by her fellow volunteers with the Flathead
County Search and Rescue Association, is retiring after
30 years of service to the organization.
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When Shirley Stubbs joined
Flathead County Search and Rescue, women were only
allowed to bake cookies and to work as a dispatcher as
part of an auxiliary.
A lot of things changed over 30 years. Stubbs eventually
trained as a first responder, to operate four-wheeler
and drive an ambulance along with dispatching. She also
worked as a dive tender for a friend on underwater
operations.
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Teens found after two
nights
Lost skier, snowboarder emerge from
mountains
Saturday
March 19, 2005
By CHERY SABOL
The Daily
Inter Lake
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Two sets of parents held their sons close Friday afternoon,
tears and laughter and questions jumbling in ecstasy after Jack
Landers of Fargo, N.D., and Charlie Gruys of Maple Lake, Minn.,
were rescued from the Jewel Basin east of Kalispell.
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Flathead County relies on the sultan of search
Saturday
March 26, 2005
By CHERY SABOL
The Daily
Inter Lake
Sheriff's deputy Tom Snyder says
that when "something really bad is happening, I like to be the guy who
gets called."
As coordinator of search and rescue in Flathead County, he's the guy who
gets called a lot when there is an emergency.
He stopped counting when he hit 31 hours of overtime last week. He
coordinated a search that turned up two teenage boys missing in the
Jewel Basin for two days.
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Search continues into second night for lost
skiers
Friday, Mar 18, 2005
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Frustrated rescuers could talk by
phone to two skiers lost in the Jewel Basin Wednesday and
Thursday; they just couldn't find them.
Charlie Gruys of Indianapolis and Jack Landers of Fargo, N.D.,
had a cell phone, but no idea where they were.
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Skier rescued from back
of Big Mountain
Jan 05, 2005 - 08:26:08 am PST
By CHERY SABOL
The Daily
Inter Lake
A cold, wet
skier from Fergus Falls, Minn., was rescued from the back of Big
Mountain late Monday night.
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