A rapid response of search and rescue organizations and volunteers in Juneau responding to a 911 call resulted in a missing woman found safely on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Juneau Mountain Rescue and Southeast Alaska Dogs Organized for Ground Search assisted the Alaska State Troopers, alongside volunteers who located Karen Harris, 73, shortly after she was reported missing.<\/p>\n
Harris was unharmed and declined medical care, according to an AST dispatch.<\/p>\n
“At 20:12 hours a Good Samaritan established verbal contact with the women,” according to the dispatch. “With the combined efforts of Alaska SEADOGS, Juneau Mountain Rescue, and volunteer searchers, she was found on a hillside in thick brush next to Basin Road and was escorted out of the woods and was provided transportation to her residence.”<\/p>\n
Volunteer Preston Nelson said he found Harris where she had lost her cane and become trapped in thick vegetation as he walked out calling her name.<\/p>\n
“I had initially walked past her. I faintly heard her saying yes, or something along those lines,” said Nelson in a phone interview. “I called 911, and asked them to patch me through the Troopers.”<\/p>\n