Ankle Breaking Season?
The Grand County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue team is warning locals and visitors to avoid a common injury this time of year: ankle-breaking season. “We’re beginning to see an unfortunate pattern play…
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Search and Rescue aids canyoneer caught by hair outside Moab
The Grand County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue and Grand County EMS headed to the Bow and Arrow canyoneering route down Potash Road outside of Moab on May 20, as storm clouds rolled…
Texas man rescued after scrambling 150 feet up a cliff outside Moab
The Grand County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue team lowered a 25-year-old Texas man to the ground just after noon on Monday, March 13. The man had scrambled up part of a wet sandstone…
Helicopter crashes in La Sal Mountains
A contract crew for the Division of Wildlife Resources was conducting a wildlife mission in the La Sal Mountains when their helicopter crashed into Mount Tukuhnikivatz.
Woman climbs to rescue stranded base jumper
A woman went from bystander to hero in a matter of moments after a base jumping accident.