[PAO] Fwd: [CAWG - General] - Mission 14M0510 Closing Traffic

[Alice Mansell]

OK.... only in San Francisco?  What the report does not say is the team
finding the first beacon was helped not just by the homeless gentleman with
the longboard to get to the beacon resting on a highway pier in the channel
but by all the other homeless residents of that Interstate 280 overpass
who'd noticed the strobing beacon .... which had kept them up all night. A
first "save" from more lost sleep?

Alice
Member, PCR-CA-214

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Date: Thursday, October 9, 2014
Subject: [CAWG - General] - Mission 14M0510 Closing Traffic
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Attention ES Personnel:



AFRCC search mission 14M0510 was opened on 7-Oct 14 and closed on 9-Oct-14
for at least one 406.025 EPIRB reported by satellites and airborne reports
in the San Francisco Port area.  One UDF team and an Aircrew were formed.
CAP 481 and the UDF team utilized excellent Air to Ground Coordination to
DF the signal to the Islais Channel.  Not able to spot the EPIRB the UDF
team asked a number of homeless citizens if they had spotted anything
looking like a EPIRB.  The citizens pointed to an object in the water that
they said had fallen from the overpass.  With the help of a citizen and his
12 foot longboard the EPIRB was retrieved.  The UDF team then verified and
silenced the EPIRB.



After the first EPIRB was silenced CAP 481 identified a second EPIRB in the
downtown San Francisco area.  AFRCC confirmed that this EPIRB was reporting
to satellites the day before but went missed (silent).  UDF 1, with the
assistance of CAP481, proceeded to downtown San Francisco and narrowed the
search area to a small block in San Francisco’s lower Nob Hill.  The
businesses identified were not open and CAP and SFPD were unable to enter
the buildings.  Over the next two days the search area was narrowed first
from Felicity's Fetiche, to the Regency Center, to the old Avalon Ballroom,
and then from the roof of that building to the six story St. Clare Hotel.
The EPIRB was found in a residents room and shut off by CAP personnel.



Due to the heavy urban area and the high elevation of the EPIRB with
respect to other surrounding buildings this EPIRB was difficult to find and
I congratulate all members that participated.  See attached image below for
an overview of the area.



The following persons are awarded Non-Distress Finds:



Name

Grade

CAPID

Unit

Assignment

# of Finds

Chris Suter

Maj

424080

PCR-CA-096

Aircrew

2

Dennis Bilotti

Capt

452558

PCR-CA-096

Aircrew

2

Paul Kubiak

Capt

451720

PCR-CA-096

Aircrew

2

Pete McCutchen

Capt

391292

PCR-CA-214

UDF

1

Matthew Gast

2d Lt

535709

PCR-CA-452

UDF

1

Al Chavez

1st Lt

146075

PCR-CA-452

UDF

2

Jordan Hayes

1st Lt

509186

PCR-CA-452

UDF

2

Luis Rivas

Capt

460970

PCR-CA-452

UDF

2

Mike Cao

1st Lt

454923

PCR-CA-452

UDF

2

Noel Luneau*

Maj

454201

PCR-CA-452

UDF

1



Special thanks to the following:

*1. Maj Jim Anthony that took over the mission as IC to allow Maj Luneau to
act as a UDF member, and building upon the DF’ing of CAP481 and UDF
members, ultimately find and silence the EPIRB.



Noel P. Luneau, Maj, CAP

PCR-CA-452 (Y452)
IC3 CAWG



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