SAR putting grant monies to good use
By Logan Bagett on Tuesday, November 15th, 2022 in Eastern/Southeast Oregon News More Top Stories
GRANT COUNTY – Grant County Emergency Management Coordinator Eric Bush was on Coffee Time recently and said that grant funding has provided our Sheriff’s Department with much needed gear. He said the Sheriff’s Office recently were able to get satellite phones for their missions. He gave an example of a situation when one was used:
“A cowboy who’s in his 70’s went down on his horse in an extremely remote area out by Murderer’s Creek. He was severely injured, and it took a long time to find him. When we did Sheriff McKinley was able to use his satellite phone that he’d been issued literally the week before, to talk one-to-one to a helicopter pilot and able to guide that helicopter pilot at 2 in the morning into the wilderness.”
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