FSAR, along with all MASAR ground search teams, and the MESARD SAR Dog team, was activated around 3 a.m. Monday morning to assist the Maine Warden Service in the search for a missing 29 year old woman. She had gone white water rafting earlier in the day and had joined some friends in the short hike to view the falls. She was last seen by her friends around 4:30 Sunday afternoon on an observation platform, in a bathing suit, overlooking Moxie Falls. When her party returned from swimming below the falls, she was gone.
4 FSAR members responded to the call with the new FSAR rescue trailer. A group of 10 MASAR searchers had just been given their search grid assignment and were packing up to head out when the phone call came in that the woman had been found alive. She was found at the confluence of Moxie Stream and the Kennebec River which was right in the middle of the search grid we were given.
Delighted about the happy ending to the search, 8 MASAR searchers hiked down to view the falls which were beautiful.
A good write up of the event is here: http://www.centralmaine.com/2015/08/10/fairfield-woman-missing-at-moxie-falls/
About 10 MASAR members were headed out for the first grid search, when the call came in that she had been found.
Peter from MDI SAR talks with Lt. Adam while the missing woman's family celebrates in the background.
Checking out the falls after the successful conclusion of the search.
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