SAR helicopter picks up second patient near Hawks Rest as crews handle gas leak, vehicle fire, bear strike

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• County SAR helicopter recovers second patient in Hawks Rest area. Rescue 22 lifted off at 07:34 with three aboard, on flight following with dispatch (TG 1814). After a period of broken radio traffic, the incident commander reported at 09:01 that "the second patient" had been located; at 09:15 the helicopter was airborne back to the hangar with 4–5 people on board. The log does not capture the nature of the incident or patient conditions.
• Construction crew hits natural gas line on West Lucky L Lane. Battalion 1, Engines 21 and 61 and Support 69 (stations 2 and 6) were paged at 10:54; Lower Valley Energy had been notified by the crew. Engine 21 reported the line crimped and no further gas flow by 11:13; after atmospheric monitoring, command was terminated at 11:20 with no hazards.
• Vehicle fire on US-89 about a mile south of Hoback. A passerby reported a white SUV with flames under the engine bay near the Boy Scout camp at 11:53; stations 3 and 7 were paged (station 3 had no personnel available). A deputy on scene at 12:07 reported a passing van had stopped and put the fire out, vehicle off the roadway; Engine 71 checked it and Battalion 1 cleared by 12:16. WHP was also notified.
• Bear struck on WY-390 — and a bear downtown before midnight. A vehicle-vs-bear collision was reported at 14:45 on WY-390 near Lake/Lynn Ranch Road [suspect name], black Chevy SUV on scene. Game & Fish was advised (14:49) the bear, possibly with a broken leg, was mobile near MM 1–1.5; a deputy cleared at 15:06 with the bear last seen heading east. Separately at 23:38, dispatch relayed a black bear in town at Millward and Broadway to Game & Fish.
• WY-22 construction snarls evening traffic. A one-lane closure on WY-22 backed up traffic from about 16:45 on; START buses reported running 15–41 minutes down into the evening. Related traffic: debris (cooler, nails) at about MM 5.5 (17:37), a motorcyclist who tipped over at low speed near MM 3 (up and walking, 17:56), drivers blocking the Y intersection (18:16), and a black sports car passing on the shoulder at ~80 mph through the construction (20:58) — deputies were out with a Porsche SUV off South Park Loop at 21:06, believed to be the same vehicle.
• Overnight CO-alarm evacuation on Absaroka Drive [suspect spelling]. At 02:13 Engine 11 and Medic 10 responded to a residential carbon-monoxide alarm; an occupant reported feeling dizzy and the family evacuated. Crews found no hazards and cleared it as a false alarm at 02:41.

Also on the air

A steady routine day: roughly 16 plate checks and 12 records checks on TG 1801; two commercial/residential fire alarms that proved unfounded (West Pearl Ave 06:23–06:47, South Cranberry Lane [suspect] 16:59–17:15); a lift assist at Pioneer Homestead (03:40) and a chest-pain transport from West Pemmican Road to St. John's (14:04–14:47); two cold hit-and-run reports (Blair Place and the Shell station car wash on West Broadway, suspect a white Toyota 4Runner); a welfare search for a possibly suicidal subject that hinged on whether they were at the Super 8 in Jackson or the one in Driggs, with a phone ping attempted at 17:08; a reported large quantity of missing medications at the C-Bar-V Ranch (17:14); a dog-vs-dog bite, a found debit card and a found bicycle; a trespass request at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort; a medical assist at Target (20:09–20:36); water-balloon mischief near the Town Square (21:45, UTL); and a false-ID call at the Maverik (23:43). START buses spent the day on radio checks, lane assignments, a bus in limp mode, a low-DEF swap-out, lost shopping bags and a found cell phone. WHP's statewide channel carried a stream of I-80/US-30 truck complaints, and Fremont County EMS paging ran all day in the background.

By the numbers

• 1,587 transmissions, 476 exchanges (180 short status-only exchanges omitted from the log).
• Busiest talkgroup: TG 1801 Teton County law dispatch (795), then TG 1820 START transit (210) and TG 1807 Fire/EMS (178).
• Busiest hour: 16:00–17:00 (169 transmissions); 12:00 (155) and 11:00 (115) close behind.
• Categories: status 186, unclassified 161, medical 42, fire 17, plate-check 16, traffic-complaint 14, records-check 12, transit 8, animal 5, crash 4, welfare 4, alarm 2, hazard 2, traffic-stop 2, suspicious 1.

Caveats

• Significant non-Teton traffic today: TG 13751 (44 transmissions) is Fremont County EMS paging out of Lander/Riverton; TG 109 is statewide WHP (mostly I-80/US-30 complaints); TG 5960 carried a statewide dispatch-center radio-check net; TG 6586/13720 appear to be Fremont County/Lander traffic. These are excluded from the incident log below.
• Machine transcription garbled many proper nouns — "Absorca/Absaroka Drive," "Lucky L Lane," "Cranberry/Creamery Lane," "Lynn Ranch Road," "East Hampton Avenue" for the Pioneer Homestead call — and unit numbers throughout; treat specific spellings as approximate.
• Rescue 22's traffic was partly unreadable (08:00–08:32), so details of the Hawks Rest operation are thin; START dispatch also reported its internet down at 17:51, and several exchanges are low-confidence [suspect].