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Deputies Honored For Rescuing A Lost Red Cross Volunteer

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Deputies Honored For Rescuing A Lost Red Cross Volunteer

Chris Gilbert November 2, 2026
Deputies Honored For Rescuing A Lost Red Cross Volunteer

Nevada County deputies are being hailed as heroes after using GPS tracking and off-road vehicles to rescue a missing Red Cross volunteer stranded on a cliffside.

Three Nevada County Sheriff’s deputies were recently hailed as heroes for rescuing a missing Red Cross volunteer a couple of months ago. Public Information Officer Ashley Quadros says the volunteer was transporting supplies in a company van from Yuba City to Reno, on August 28th and became lost and hadn’t made it to his destination…


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Quadros says deputies Bryce Bouchard, Charles Raban, and Kayla Ramos soon after determined that the volunteer had left his cell phone at a hotel in Yuba City. And since all Red Cross vehicles are equipped with GPS tracking, that allowed them to trace the coordinates to a remote, rugged area in the county, off Lazy Dog Road near Nevada City. Using the department’s Jeep Wrangler for off-roading needs, a search on dirt trails carried on into the night and the volunteer was located within a couple of hours. The truck had become disabled on the side of a cliff, as a result of the difficult terrain the volunteer had ended up on. Quadros says missing person cases are way more common than residents know, often multiple times in a week. And most are quickly resolved …

 

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Quadros says the Sheriff’s Department has received 168 missing person reports so far this year.

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