Patrol and Operations Report 11/1/2009

Received a call from 70D re: a concerned citizen reported that a man on the fire break above Cobb Estate was taking off his clothing and continuing up the fire break. Went to investigate. Hiked up the fire break and located a back pack and several articles of clothing. After review, we came to the conclusion that said pack may belong to a transient.

Drove up the Lowe Road to see if we could locate the subject and make sure he was not in need of assistance. On our way back we received another call from 70D re: a dehydrated hiker on Lower Sam who may possibly be 918...it happened to be the owner of the pack. He was assisted down and taken to the hospital.

Patrol and Operations Report 10/18/2009

Drove up the Arroyo and out the Edison Road. Passable (for now) with the Chevy Colorado, wouldn't take the F350 though. The next good rain will probably make it impassable, there were already numerous slides as all the vegetation is burned up. There was foot and bicycle traffic even with the AREA CLOSED signs posted.

They are doing lots of work up on ACH, which is still closed. Replacing guard rails and clearing storm drains and maybe making new ones. They had a large auger truck and lots of galvanized drain tubes.

El Prieto is pretty burnt, although some areas down low more or less survived. Sunset trail is totally burnt up, you can see just about the whole trail from the Lowe Road. There will be numerous slides when the rains come and the trail will most likely be wiped out. Sierra Saddle survived, but the area around it is totally burnt up.

The foot traffic gate at Pinecrest gate is open again.

We heard Fire rolling to Cobb Estate and shortly after got called out for heart attack victim 50 yards ABOVE Echo Mt. Fire was going up the trail from Cobb Estate. Team members took off up the Lowe Road with intent to hike across the Echo Mt trail. We noticed a Fire helo up in the area and by the time we got to the trailhead heard they had the victim and were on the way to Huntington.

We were going to deploy with med pack and AED and have the next crew bring litter/wheel in. We had the collapsable litter and knew they would repackage anyway for an airlift so wasn't going to deploy with it.

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Hello to the our community from the Altadena Mountain Rescue Team!

We decided to start this blog because we wanted to keep everyone in Altadena better informed about our activities and operations. We thought that it might be helpful for people to have a place to go to look for information about searches or rescues, especially when there are helicopters hovering over the hills or our rescue trucks can been seen at the trail-heads. We will try to provide information as quickly as possible after an operation takes place - although we will never be able to keep up with the Altadena Blog which is providing such a great service for us here!

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Thanks,
AMRT Team