
Hours after a volunteer rescue team recovered the bodies of two Portland men who died on Christmas while searching for Sasquatch, the team discovered nearly all of their non-profit organization's life-saving equipment had been stolen.
The theft occurred on the final night of the three-day mission, during which exhausted volunteers were resting at home. Thieves reportedly cut through a 10-foot barbed wire fence to access the Skamania County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue (SAR) storage yard, breaking into trailers and stealing critical equipment, including first responder tools for rope rescue, wilderness medical kits, an AED device, and generators.