Sedona AZ (September 5, 2017)  – On September 4, 2017, at approximately 7:30 in the evening, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of two lost and stranded hikers in the West Fork area of Oak Creek Canyon, Sedona, Arizona. The hikers began the hike at 11:00 in the morning with a trip plan to and from the Call of the Canyon Trailhead in Oak Creek to the bridge at Woody... 

Coconino County SAR respond to calls reporting severely injured hikers in the Pomeroy Tanks and Walnut Canyon areas Sedona AZ (June 13, 2017) – On June 10, 2017 at approximately 9:30 in the morning, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office, Coconino County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue, Ponderosa Fire District, Lifeline Ambulance, AZ Department of Public Safety Northern Air Rescue Unit, and Guardian... 

Horseshoe Bend area near Page Arizona Sedona AZ (May 8, 2017) – The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a Scottsdale, Arizona man at a tourist attraction about five miles south of Page, AZ. On Sunday, May 7, 2017, around 9:00 in the morning, rangers from the National Park Service (NPS) at Glen Canyon located a phone and water bottle at the cliff edge of Horseshoe... 

Bitter Springs hiker rescue ends successfully Sedona AZ (May 1, 2017) – Coconino County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue and DPS Air Rescue helicopter rescued a stranded female hiker from cliffs east of Bitter Springs in Arizona. On Sunday, April 30, at approximately 4:30 in the afternoon, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office received a request for a rescue. The hiker, an adult woman... 

Sedona AZ (April 22, 2016) – On April 21, 2016, at 8:30 in the morning, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office and Search and Rescue responded to a lost hiker report on Humphrey’s Peak, Flagstaff. The male hiker, 59, was off trail at approximately an 11,700 foot elevation and in an area known as Temptation Gully. He was cold, tired, disoriented, with some underlying medical conditions. CCSO... 

Sedona AZ (December 14, 2015) – On December 10, 2015, at about 9:30 p.m., the Sheriff’s Office was called to help find a  Manuel Ortega, 19, after he got lost in the dark between the communities of Cottonwood and Sedona, Arizona. Ortega was scheduled to be picked up at his home on Bill Gray Road by a family member, inside the Coconino National Forest, to go to work. When the family members... 

Sedona AZ (April 18, 2014) – Darryl Drake, a member of the Southern Yavapai County Sheriff’s Response Team reported, “A Texas couple, taking “the dirt road” to California, found themselves mired in deep sand in far western Yavapai County Monday afternoon. After the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office was notified (late afternoon on April 14, 2014) a “hasty” search...