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

[Karen Copenhaver]

What a mission! It's strange how some of these types of missions 
proceed.  We've had strange ones like that too, where the signal 
moved...  then stopped, and ultimately was found in a UPS truck.

Thanks for sharing, and we hope the homeless people can now get some sleep!

Karen~


On 10/10/2014 2:12 AM, Alice Mansell wrote:
> 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
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: <noreply at cawg.cap.gov <mailto:noreply at cawg.cap.gov>>
> Date: Thursday, October 9, 2014
> Subject: [CAWG - General] - Mission 14M0510 Closing Traffic
> To:
>
>
> 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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