Our Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Swift Water Rescue Team continues to actively support Harney County as it faces significant flooding challenges. Today, our dedicated team assisted in checking 60 homes impacted by rising flood waters [...]
Rescue: Lost Hiker at Smith Rock Date: March 27, 2025 Duration: 6 hours Responders: 1 deputy + 17 volunteers At approximately 9:17 PM on March 27, a page went out for Deschutes County Search & [...]
Rescue: Injured Hiker at Smith Rock State Park Date: March 25, 2025 Duration: 3.5 hours Responders: 2 deputies + 8 volunteers On March 25, at approximately 11:23 AM, Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search & Rescue [...]
Rescue: Stuck Motorist, Forest Service Road 1810 Date: March 24, 2025 Duration: 3.5 hours Responders: 1 deputy + 1 volunteer On March 24, 2025, at approximately 10:40 PM, Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue [...]
BEND, Ore. — March 11, 2025 – On the afternoon of March 11, Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue (SAR) responded to a call about two skiers stranded on South Sister—one of them injured. [...]
DESCHUTES COUNTY, OR – March 8, 2025 – At approximately 3:53 PM, Deschutes County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a report of a serious snowmobile accident near Elk Lake Loop, just south of Sunset View [...]
Bend, Oregon -- At approximately 10:15 AM today, Deschutes County 911 was contacted by a third-party monitoring service that had received an automated crash notification from a cell phone application belonging to a snowmobile crash [...]
Released by: Sergeant Jason Wall Release Date: February 19, 2025 Deceased: Skjersaa, Terance Olaf 57-year-old male, Bend Deceased: Skjersaa, Susan Renee 52-year-old female, Bend Location: Snowmobile Trail 8 near Trail 88 (Happy Valley Area) NARRATIVE: [...]
Rescue: Injured snowmobiler at Moon Mountain Date: January 22 Duration: 6 hours Responders: 2 deputies + 16 volunteers Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search & Rescue was dispatched to a location near Moon Mountain for an [...]
Released by: Lt. Ty Rupert, Search and Rescue Coordinator On September 14th, 2024, at approximately 4:02pm, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue was dispatched to a lost hiker near the summit of South [...]
