Deputies Honored For Rescuing A Lost Red Cross Volunteer
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…
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 …
Quadros says the Sheriff’s Department has received 168
missing person reports so far this year.
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