Articles with the Tag: Lake County Search and Rescue

FLATHEAD LAKE — The search for a kayaker that went missing on Flathead Lake Saturday afternoon in Polson continued Monday. Robert W. McDonald, 43, a physician and hospitalist at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Polson, launched his kayak around noon on July 19 near the Bear Harbor...

FLATHEAD LAKE — The weekend search for a missing Flathead Lake kayaker transitioned from an active search to a recovery effort on Monday.  Lake County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Karen Sargeant said St. Joseph Hospital physician Robert W. McDonald, 43, launched a yellow Eclipse kayak fr...

POLSON — The Rural Fire Board held its monthly meeting on Dec. 8 at the Fairgrounds Fire Station, and one item on the agenda drew quite a crowd. That item was discussion about the possible sale of the Fairgrounds Station to Lake County Search and Rescue. LCSAR members attended and had an impromptu l...

POLSON — Polson Rural Fire District trustees are considering the proposed sale of Fairgrounds Station No. 4. “This board did not go looking to sell (the station),” Chair Jack Clapp said. “We were approached.”  Lake County Search and Rescue has offered $289,000 to purc...

POLSON — Lake County Sheriff’s Office and Flathead County Sheriff’s Office deputies recovered missing boater Nathan Bird’s body from Flathead Lake at about 12:45 p.m. on Aug. 29, according to Karen Sargeant, LCSO Public Information Officer. Bird, 36, from Huson, Mont., had bee...

PABLO — Like a scene from a movie, a man staggered from the Mathias Building on Salish Kootenai College Campus after “shooting” people in the building, and then “shot” himself.  This was part of the plot for an emergency training, not a real shooting, held on July 13.&nb...

SWAN LAKE — Lake County Search and Rescue saved two Swan Lake area snowmobilers Jan. 11 after the pair became stranded at night in 7-below-zero weather. Lake County dispatch received a call at 8:17 p.m. regarding a pair of snowmobilers stranded at the top of Crane Mountain.  “They went...

RONAN — After more than 80 hours in the Mission Mountains, two runaway teens safely returned home last week.  According to a press release, 14-year-old Bailey Speagle and 15-year-old Justin Krahn ran away from home and headed into the Mission Mountain Wilderness the morning of Sept. 23.  ...