Many more searches and rescues: First responders are busy

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INDEX — With COVID-19 keeping everyone cooped up, trailheads and waterways have been congested as people look to escape to the outdoors. Crowds have packed some of the county’s hottest destinations, and Snohomish County Search and Rescue has been inundated with calls for help.

Since January 1, the sheriff’s office has responded to 330 calls for search and rescue in Snohomish County. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Courtney O’Keefe said that in the same time span in 2019, the county received approximately 280 calls, and in the years prior it was closer to 200.

A pair of rescues in east Snohomish County on Aug. 27 are just two examples of the extraordinarily busy summer search-and-rescue teams are having.

At 10 a.m. that day, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue launched the helicopter SnoHawk 10 to extract a hiker that slipped on a log and seriously injured his shoulder near Mica Lake.

A few hours later, the crew was called to a popular climbing location outside Index to extract a woman who suffered head and possible spinal injuries in a fall.

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