SAR responded to assist a stuck vehicle at Forest Lake above Tibble Fork.

A small plane was flying over Sagebrush Flats behind Mahogony Mountain when strong headwinds led to a crash. The plane flipped over, but both passengers were able to walk away with only minor injuries.

Friends in a separate airplane called in the accident and a SAR member’s personal helicopter reached the victims almost immediately. Life Flight also showed up and carried the victims off the mountain.

SAR divers were called to help retrieve a car from the lake near Provo Airport.

SAR units responded to Stewart Falls Saturday to assist North Fork (Sundance) Fire in carrying out a hiker with an injured leg.

While lifting the woman from a wheeled Stokes stretcher, used in most trail extrications, to the ambulance gurney, she commented, “I’ve never been surrounded by so many good-looking guys!”

A 51-year-old woman broke her leg while hiking near Stewart Falls. SAR assisted Sundance Fire in carrying her to a waiting ambulance.

The official web page of the Utah County Sheriff Search and Rescue volunteer team is being redesigned to better accomplish our goals to:

• provide outdoor safety information
• inform the community of SAR activities
• attract qualified members to join our team
• encourage donations to support our rescue efforts

Visit often as we add information and rescue reports. Let us know how else we can better serve our community!

SAR members responded to assist other agencies with a female hiker with chest pain at the top of the Timpanogos Cave trail.

SAR responded to Timpanogos Cave for a woman reporting chest pain. She was quickly brought down the trail and attended by an ambulance crew.

Here are the photos that appear in the top right corner of the page with a few notes about each one:

Team members carry an injured hiker down Timpanogos’ Primrose Cirque in our wheeled stretcher.

A Singletrack Special Team member transports an automated electronic defibrilator (AED) to a hiker complaining of chest pain several miles up the trail.

A team member puts on his crampons during a prolonged search for an avalanche victim on Timpanogos.

Two stranded climbers are rescued in Provo Canyon.

Team members approach the summit ridge of Mount Nebo to assist an injured hiker.

A team member rappels during a training exercise.

Responding to a report of a car rollover atop West Mountain.

Squeezing through the “birth canal” in Nutty Putty Cave.

Ice climbing Provo Canyon’s “Stairway to Heaven” during a training exercise.

Life Flight prepares to land in the Lone Peak Cirque to evacuate an injured climber.

UCSSAR team members assist Summit County rescue teams in a search following a massive backcountry avalanche near The Canyons resort.

Team members leave Nutty Putty after successfully helping a stuck caver.

A team member is lowered during a recertification exercise for the Mountain Rescue Association.

Life Flight helicopters assist a multiple-victim accident in the backcountry.

A team member skis backcountry powder during a training exercise.

A team member rappels with his dog during a training exercise in Battle Creek Canyon.