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Thanks for letting us come and help. FROM PIERCE COUNTY EXPLORER SEARCH AND RESCUE: Thank you to all the volunteers and agencies involved with search efforts over the course of 7 days. Thank you specifically to the teams with Washington Explorer Search and Rescue Kitsap Unit, whose perseverance by their highly trained and skilled SAR … Continue reading Recognition for Kitsap WESAR and others in exhausting Ashford search

It is our honor to serve. FROM PIERCE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: * UPDATE * Shortly after 5 p.m. last night, volunteers from Washington Explorer Search and Rescue Kitsap Unit located Chang Soo Kim's body in deep mud during a grid search of a swamp at the bottom of a valley in the Elbe Hills area. … Continue reading Body of missing brushpicker located in Ashford

Kitsap WESAR is headed back to Ashford tomorrow morning with a dozen searchers to resume the search for Mr. Kim. Our folks were on the ground for three of the five days that the initial phase of this search took place. Tomorrow, we hope to be part of the effort to finally bring him home. … Continue reading Ashford search resumes after suspension of initial search efforts

You guys are seriously rock stars. The first team in the field at 8:15 in the morning and the last one out at 9:15 at night. Grid searched 170 acres of swamp and the Incident Commander had a stroke when a he saw a group of teenagers walk in the door at the end of … Continue reading Exhaustive day at Ashford search

We're headed back to Ashford again today as the search for a missing 77-year-old forager moves into its 5th day.