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Category: Search & Rescue

U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for missing pilot following plane crash off Oregon coast near Yaquina Head September 21, 2026

Posted on September 22, 2026 by Editor

(ASTORIA, OR) — The Coast Guard suspended its search for a missing pilot after a Beechcraft B95 aircraft crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Yaquina Head Lighthouse in Newport, Monday. The aircraft was carrying a 78-year-old male pilot who remains missing. Watchstanders at Coast Guard…

TILLAMOOK COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SEARCH & RESCUE BANQUET HUGE SUCCESS

Posted on September 16, 2026 by Editor

WHAT A NIGHT! The 2026 Tillamook County Search and Rescue Banquet was an incredible success on Saturday September 12, 2026, and we want to thank everyone who helped make it such a…

TILLAMOOK COUNTY SHERIFF’S SEARCH & RESCUE BANQUET FUNDRAISER SEPT. 12TH – GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!

Posted on August 18, 2026 by Editor

The Tillamook County Search and Rescue Annual Banquet and Fundraiser will be held on Saturday, September 12, 2026 at the Tillamook Fairgrounds. This event is one of our largest fundraisers of the…

NETARTS OCEANSIDE FIRE DISTRICT: “The Rest of the Story” – Rescue Rangers – Cape Lookout Park Rangers, Volunteer Firefighters Locate Missing Girl on July 4th

Posted on July 11, 2026July 12, 2026 by Editor

It took a few days to sort through the reports and conduct in-person interviews. Matt (on the left) is a Cape Lookout State Park Ranger, and a Volunteer Firefighter with Rockaway Beach…

TILLAMOOK COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE: Fourth of July Search Ends in Remarkable Rescue at Cape Lookout State Park

Posted on July 11, 2026 by Editor

EDITOR’S NOTE: More details about the miraclous search and rescue efforts of the little girl on the 4th of July that went missing from Cape Lookout. See below for link to original…

NETARTS OCEANSIDE FIRE DISTRICT: 4TH OF JULY MIRACLE – LOST FOUR-YEAR-OLD FOUND SAFE WITH HUGE TEAM EFFORT, RESPONSE

Posted on July 5, 2026July 11, 2026 by Editor

The above alert went out to Tillamook County residents on the evening of July 4, 2026. A family’s worst nightmare become a holiday celebration for all when Tillamook County first responders, and…

CANNON BEACH FIRE DISTRICT EXECUTES COMPLEX MULTI-DISCIPLINE RESCUE AT ECOLA POINT SUNDAY APRIL 26

Posted on April 27, 2026 by Editor

On Sunday April 26, 2026 at approximately 7:45 pm, Cannon Beach Fire District was dispatched to a reported water rescue involving an individual stranded on rocks near the surf at Ecola Point,…

CANNON BEACH FIRE DISTRICT RESPONDS TO WATER RESCUE CALL NEAR CHAPMAN POINT, COMMAND VEHICLE STUCK WHILE CROSSING CREEK; RESCUE VEHICLE RESCUED BY LOCAL SONS OF BEACHES SHORE PATROL

Posted on April 26, 2026 by Editor

Photos by Carol Keljo and Jay Pittman On Saturday April 25, 2026, Cannon Beach Fire District personnel were conducting a beach patrol near Chapman Point when they observed a surfer in distress…

CANNON BEACH FIRE DISTRICT HOSTS ROPE RESCUE TRAINING WITH LOCAL FIRST RESPONDERS, SPECIALIZED EQUIPMENT ASSISTS WITH CHALLENGING COASTAL RESCUES

Posted on April 4, 2026 by Editor

Over the past two days, April 1 – 2, 2026, the Cannon Beach Fire District Rope Rescue team hosted CMC: Rescue, Safety, Access for a hands-on Arizona Vortex workshop. Throughout the class,…

NEHALEM BAY FIRE & RESCUE HIGH ANGLE RESCUE ON NEAHKAHNIE MTN. APRIL 2ND, VICTIM SAFELY RESCUED, UNINJURED

Posted on April 4, 2026 by Editor

On April 2, 2026 at 12:40pm Nehalem Bay Fire and Rescue District was dispatched to a report of a high angle rescue from the edge of a viewpoint on Highway 101 on…

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