Author Archives: Jason Jarrett

(Madison County, Mont.) Monday Search and Rescue Volunteers from Gallatin County assisted the Madison County Sheriff’s Office with an avalanche recovery on Imp Peak.  The avalanche killed 23-year-old year Inge Perkins of Bozeman, MT. Preliminary investigation indicates that Saturday morning, Oct 7th, … Continue reading →

(Gallatin County, Mont.) On Friday, September 22, 2017, at approximately 4:00PM, the Gallatin County 911 Dispatch Center received a call from a passing motorist on I-90 at the bridge over the Gallatin River. The motorist stated they were certain they … Continue reading →

 (Gallatin County, Mont.) Monday lived up to its reputation sending Sheriff’s Search and Rescue to three events and three people to the hospital with leg injuries.  The first at 9:37 a.m., the West Yellowstone Police Department Dispatch center received a 911 call reporting … Continue reading →

Press release Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office (Gallatin County, Mont.) Tuesday afternoon at 4:00 the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office received a request for a backcountry rescue in the Beehive Basin area near Big Sky.  The 911 caller advised that a 67 … Continue reading →

(Gallatin County, Mont.)  4:30 Friday afternoon Sheriff’s Search and Rescue and Ft Ellis Fire Dept. were dispatched to the New World Gulch Trail in Bear Canyon East of Bozeman.  A hiker had come upon a lady laying beside the trail a mile … Continue reading →

(Gallatin County, Mont.) Gallatin County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue started a busy night at 5:30 P.M. yesterday when  missing 72-year-old woman with dementia was reported missing in Big Sky.  Sheriff’s Deputies and the Big Sky Division of Sheriff’s Search and Rescue … Continue reading →

(Gallatin County, Mont.)  The fire reported in the Clarkston area North of Three Forks has been declared under control.  The human caused fire was reported about 1:30 P.M..  Fire Departments from around Gallatin and Broadwater County as well as the … Continue reading →

(Big Sky, Mont.) On Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at 8:00 PM, Gallatin County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue at Big Sky and Paramedics from the Big Sky Fire Department responded to a backcountry rescue on the Porcupine Creek Trail.   A 73 … Continue reading →

(Gallatin County, Mont.) Sheriff Brian Gootkin  is recovering at Benefis hospital in Great Falls after a motorcycle accident on Saturday, August 5. Sheriff Gootkin struck a deer outside of White Sulphur Springs. He was taken by medical helicopter to the … Continue reading →

(Gallatin County, Mont.) On Sunday morning about 8:00, the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Team responded to the Bridger Ridge Trail for a backcountry rescue. A family of three from Spokane, WA was hiking from Fairy Lake to the … Continue reading →