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Woman found barely breathing at West Table boat ramp taken to St. John's as trauma-one activation

Unresponsive woman at the Snake River boat ramp drew a multi-agency rescue.

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  • Unresponsive woman at the Snake River boat ramp drew a multi-agency rescue. At 18:04 a caller reported a woman passed out on the concrete on the non-commercial side of the boat ramp (West Table area, Snake River Canyon). Deputies on TG 1404 found her down by the river at 18:15, "barely breathing"; the ambulance left for St. John's Health at 18:28 as a trauma-one activation, with Teton County unit 2214 driving the ambulance and leaving his patrol car at West Table. No further condition update aired.
  • Overdue driver found safe after late-night Greys River search. At 23:14 Garmin relayed an SOS activation with coordinates; a woman's last phone pin was about 3.5 miles up Greys River Road, roughly five hours earlier. Lincoln County deputies (TG 1404) and family searched from Alpine; at 23:55 she was found safe, pulled over about two miles up Little Greys, and all units cleared.
  • Shed fire in town drew a full first-alarm, out on arrival. A 14:24 page sent Battalion 6, three engines, a medic and Truck 16 to South Jackson Street for a smoldering 8x8 shed. PD arrived at 14:27 to no active flame — the reporting party had doused it, and sunlight through a magnifying glass aimed at a beam was the suspected cause. Most units stood down; all clear by 14:33.
  • Heavy trucks kept tripping the Teton Pass weigh-in-motion site. Alerts on TG 113/6386 at 08:18 (72,507 lbs), 11:15 (72,544 lbs, blacked-out truck, partial plate), 18:40 (96,559 lbs — the day's heaviest) and 19:18 (67,028 lbs, Nebraska tractor). No stops were aired.
  • Three no-injury crashes in town. 08:14 off Maple Way near Target (Subaru vs. larger SUV, parties moved to the Sinclair station); 15:46 North Glenwood at a garbled cross street (Equinox vs. Forester); 17:54 at Snake River Brewing (Volvo vs. Jeep Wrangler).
  • Two head-injury medicals an hour apart. Medic 10 took a head laceration from East Simpson Avenue to St. John's (paged 15:56, transporting 16:09; later tied to a possible fall-on-city-property LE report), then a fall with head injury on Huckleberry Drive (paged 16:27, transporting 17:02 after initially not finding the patient).

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A heavy traffic-enforcement day: 49 plate checks and 34 records checks, with nine logged stops mostly ending in verbal warnings. Four fire/EMS alarm activations all proved benign (Snake River Lodge & Spa false alarm 08:49, John Dodge Road smoke detector 09:38, Horse Creek Road canceled by the alarm company 10:56, North Clubhouse Drive construction debris 16:04); a residential alarm on North Upper Meadow Road at 19:10 had no outcome aired. START buses (TG 1820) spent the day routing around Broadway construction and a closed Scott Lane (exposed pipes, cones in bus stops); Broadway reopened by late afternoon. What appears to be school-bus dispatch (TG 1812) spent the afternoon sorting missed pickups and detours. Rounding it out: four parking complaints, a walk-in fraud report (13:28), a possible theft at REI (14:46), a TJ Maxx disturbance (16:33, man verbally accosting customers from a white Dodge diesel), a stalking-order-violation follow-up by phone (18:31), welfare checks including an overdue son on Hoback Road, an early-morning found-person at the St. John's parking lot (05:53, located within minutes), injured-deer calls near Alpine, and a high school evacuation drill (10:13).

By the numbers

  • 2,465 transmissions across 874 exchanges (452 short status-only exchanges omitted from the detailed log)
  • Busiest talkgroup: TG 1801 Teton County law dispatch, 1,029 transmissions; busiest hour: 16:00–17:00 with 291
  • Categories: status 322, plate-check 49, medical 39, records-check 34, fire 17, transit 17, traffic-stop 9, animal 9, alarm 7, crash 7, traffic-complaint 7, welfare 5, hazard 3, noise-parking 3, domestic 2, 911-open-line 2 — plus 342 unclassified

Caveats

  • Machine transcription is rough today: unit numbers, road names and spellings are unreliable (e.g., the Glenwood crash cross street, the "beefcake" truck detail, and a reported MM 155.5 couch-in-roadway call that officers couldn't locate). Lines marked [suspect] are low-confidence.
  • A significant share of logged traffic is not Teton County: TG 13751 is Fremont County EMS paging (Lander/Riverton, including a Hwy 20 rollover at 16:43), TG 109 is statewide WHP (mostly Rock Springs/I-80), and most TG 1404 traffic is Lincoln County (Afton/Alpine) — included above only where it involved Teton units or St. John's.
  • TG 1812 is unidentified but consistent with school-district bus dispatch; student-related details are withheld. An 18:53 request to reclassify an earlier call as a sexual assault aired with no other detail.